Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She was born in 1975 in North London and is best known for her novels White Teeth and On Beauty. Smith has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. She is a professor of Creative Writing at New York University and a contributing editor at The New York Review of Books. Smith's writing is known for its wit, intelligence, and insight into the complexities of modern life. Her work has been translated into over 30 languages and has been praised by critics and readers alike.