{"id":920,"date":"2021-04-28T20:40:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/?p=920"},"modified":"2021-08-14T14:38:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T18:38:52","slug":"zadie-smith-a-life-of-shifting-geographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/zadie-smith-a-life-of-shifting-geographies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zadie Smith, A Life of Shifting Geographies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_921\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-921\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-921 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/04\/DominiqueNabokov_hires-202x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/04\/DominiqueNabokov_hires-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/252\/2021\/04\/DominiqueNabokov_hires.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zadie Smith, photographed by Dominique Nabokov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Zadie Smith was born on 25<sup>th<\/sup> October 1975, in Willesden, north-west London. After attending local state schools, Smith read English literature at King\u2019s College, Cambridge, where she was published twice in student literature anthology, <em>The Mays. <\/em>After her short stories caught the attention of publishers in her final year at Cambridge, she reportedly received a six-figure advance for <em>White Teeth<\/em> (2000), her debut novel. Both<em> White Teeth <\/em>and Smith\u2019s subsequent novels have been praised for their expansive geographies and attention to location; <em>The Autograph Man<\/em> (2002) on London; <em>On Beauty <\/em>(2006), on a British-American family living outside Boston; <em>NW <\/em>(2012)<em>, <\/em>set in Brent, the borough in which she grew up; and <em>Swing Time<\/em> (2016) that crossed London, New York and West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Smith became tenured professor of fiction at New York University in 2010, and spent much of the following decade living between New York and London. In 2020, she moved back to Kilburn, where she lives with her husband and two children; during the pandemic, Smith also published <em>Intimations <\/em>(2020), an essay collection on living in lockdown amidst a time of reflection on race and society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zadie Smith was born on 25th October 1975, in Willesden, north-west London. After attending local state schools, Smith read English literature at King\u2019s College, Cambridge, where she was published twice in student literature anthology, The Mays. After her short stories caught the attention of publishers in her final year at Cambridge, she reportedly received a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/zadie-smith-a-life-of-shifting-geographies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zadie Smith, A Life of Shifting Geographies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[190,189,43,188],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-zadie-smith","tag-geography","tag-location","tag-london","tag-zadie-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}