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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith FRSL (born on 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
Smith was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002. As of 2012, she has published four novels, all of which have received substantial critical praise. In 2003, she was included on ''Granta's'' list of 20 best young authors,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Zadie Smith )〕 and was also included in the 2013 list.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Zadie Smith )〕 She joined New York University's Creative Writing Program as a tenured professor on 1 September 2010. Smith has won the Orange Prize for Fiction〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - 2006 )〕 and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2006〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=On Beauty )〕 and her novel ''White Teeth'' was included in ''Time'' magazine's ''TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005'' list.
==Early life==
Zadie Smith was born as Sadie Smith in the north-west London borough of Brent to a Jamaican mother, Yvonne Bailey, and an English father, Harvey Smith.〔("Writers: Zadie Smith" ), Literature - British Council.〕 Her mother had grown up in Jamaica and migrated to England in 1969.〔 Their marriage was her father's second. Zadie has a half-sister, a half-brother, and two younger brothers, one of whom is the rapper and stand-up comedian Doc Brown and the other is rapper Luc Skyz. As a child she was fond of tap dancing;〔 as a teenager she considered a career as an actress in musical theatre; and as a university student she earned money as a jazz singer and wanted to become a journalist.
Her parents divorced when she was a teenager. When she was 14, she changed her name to "Zadie". Despite earlier ambitions, literature emerged as her principal interest.
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