Zadie Smith: A Life in Pictures – Multicultural London:|The Literature of Migrants and Immigrants

Zadie Smith, photographed by Dominique Nabokov

Zadie Smith and her father embrace. Smith was born to a Jamaican mother and a British father.

The NW postcode area, shown by the light blue line. Coordinate file courtesy of doogal.co.uk

King’s College Cambridge, where Smith read English Literature. She finished White Teeth (2000) in her final year at Cambridge.

The cover of White Teeth (2000), Smith’s debut novel. Released to critical acclaim, it was ranked at #39 on The Guardian’s best novels of the 21st century.

Zadie Smith, at an event on class and creativity at NYU. She has been a tenured professor of fiction at the university since 2010.

Natalie and Leah embrace in the BBC adaptation of NW.

Zadie Smith and her husband, Northern Irish poet Nick Laird. The couple currently live in Kilburn, London, with their two children.