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Zadie Smith

22 August 2020

9:00 AM

22 August 2020

9:00 AM

She had a heady start to her writing career. The rights to her first novel were the subject of a bidding war while it was still incomplete and she had not yet graduated from Cambridge; the novel became an international best-seller and multi-award winner. That novel was White Teeth; its author, Zadie Smith, was born in 1975 in London to a Jamaican mother and an English father.

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