![]() ![]() 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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