Over the years, Zadie has garnered wealth – she bought a large house in Willesden, north London, where she grew up; lived in Rome for a couple of years; is liberally generous to friends (one told me a Net-a-Porter bag arrives every year on her birthday).

Jul 17, 2017 · From Philip Roth to Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen to Jennifer Egan, Joan Didion to Jay McInerney, you can't swing a quill in this city without hitting a well-known writer. Nevertheless, we...

Sep 6, 2012 · He’s overwhelmingly familiar, which is of course a function of his fame ­ — rap superstar, husband of Beyoncé, minority owner of the Nets, whose new home, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, will...

This is the novelist's Zadie Smith's home ground. And talking of home grounds ... Queens Park Rangers, founded in 1886, take their name from this area, though they had no enduring home until moving to their present stadium, Loftus Road in White City, in 1917.

Sep 5, 2021 · We walk along Winchester Avenue and turn right down Willesden Lane; on our right is Athelstan Gardens Estate, where Zadie Smith lived as a child. It has much in common with the Caldwell estate of the book, including the stout boundary wall.

Mar 6, 2018 · With Obama, the fact of human multifariousness had migrated from the realm of art into the halls of power. A representative of what Smith calls “Dream City”—a heterogeneous world of...

Oct 3, 2012 · Zadie Smith Convergence "C" logo with text Convergence Magazine a magazine for radical insights – helping people who animate movements for social, economic, & environmental justice understand the balance of power and asking crucial strategic questions about what we need to do today to make the impossible possible tomorrow.

Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English [1] novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel , White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards.

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind,...

All across London, hidden behind brick facades, are the writing dens of famous writers, past and present. From Samuel Pepys and Charles Dickens to Zadie Smith and Caleb Femi, the capital has, for generations, been home to many famous literary names and provided them with endless inspiration for their works.