Smith was writer-in-residence at the ICA in London and later published, as editor, an anthology of sex writing, Piece of Flesh, as the main work of this job. The novel was adapted for television in 2002.

It was praised internationally and won awards, including: the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Betty Trask Award. The novel immediately became a best-seller.

Smith completed White Teeth during her final year at Cambridge. Publishers saw part of the manuscript and an auction for the rights started. Smith's first novel White Teeth was introduced to the publishing world in 1997, before it was completed. Smith returned to guest-edit the anthology in 2001. A publisher liked the stories and offered her a contract for her first novel. Īt Cambridge, Smith published a number of short stories in a collection of new student writing called The Mays Anthology. The popular British comedy double act Mitchell and Webb may have rejected Smith from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1990s. She did not leave Cambridge with a double First. She then studied English literature at King's College, Cambridge.

Smith attended the local state schools, Malorees Junior School and Hampstead Comprehensive School. Despite earlier ambitions, literature became her main interest. When she was a university student, Smith earned money as a jazz singer. As a teenager, she considered a career in musical theatre. She has a half-sister, a half-brother, and two younger brothers (one is the rapper and stand-up comedian Doc Brown, and the other is the rapper Luc Skyz). Smith's parents divorced when she was a teenager. Smith's mother grew up in Jamaica, and emigrated to England in 1969. Bailey is Jamaican and Smith is English At the age of 14, she changed her name to Zadie. Her mother was Yvonne Bailey and her father was Harvey Smith. Smith was born Sadie Smith in Willesden in the north-west London borough of Brent. She has been a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University since September 2010. Her most recent book is Feel Free (2018). It immediately became a best-seller and won awards. Zadie Smith FRSL (born 25 October 1975) is a contemporary English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Recorded September 2013 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs

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