![]() ![]() As an undergraduate student of Cambridge University, Smith penned regular short stories for the University's May Anthologies – an annual two volume compilation of prose and poetry on which I was a regular board member during my own doctoral studies at the University. ![]() The circumstances of Smith's sudden rise to literary darling seem as unlikely as the comic hyperbole that fills the pages of White Teeth. Her first novel, White Teeth, received a rumored 250,000 pound advance based on only two chapters and a plot-synopsis the completed novel (of epic proportions) was written while completing a BA at Cambridge University her literary debut has been hailed a formidable achievement by none other than Salman Rushdie, with whom she recently completed a New York book tour rave reviews have appeared in the British and the North American Press alike and all of this has been achieved by the ripe old age of 24. ![]() Zadie Smith is living the fairy-tale story dreamed of by young (and aged) writers everywhere. White Teeth:īy Kathleen O'Grady, Research Associate, Simone de Beauvoir 27.1 (Fall 2002): 105-111 reprinted here with permission from the author. ![]() ( White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000).Ī Women's Studies Journal, Vol. ![]()
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