Zadie Adeline Smith (born 25 Oct 1975), is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Smith completed White Teeth during her final year at the University of Cambridge. Published in 2000, It was praised internationally and won a number of awards, among them the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Betty Trask Award. The novel was adapted for television in 2002. Smith's second novel, The Autograph Man, was published in 2002 . She started work on a still-unreleased book of essays, The Morality of the Novel (a.k.a. Fail Better), in which she considers a selection of 20th-century writers through the lens of moral philosophy. Smith's third novel, On Beauty, was published in September 2005. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Later in the same year, Smith published Martha and Hanwell. Smith's novel NW was published in 2012. It is set in the Kilburn area of north-west London, the title being a reference to the local postcode, NW6. NW was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction. Less