The Fall 2023 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series continues with a reading by prize-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty, Zadie Smith.

Zadie Smith is the author of novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time.  Her new novel, The Fraud, is historical fiction based on Victorian England’s notorious Tichborne Trial. She has published three collections of essays, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, Feel Free, and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and a play, The Wife of Willesden. In 2021 she co-wrote a children's book with Nick Laird titled The Surprise, with illustrations by Magenta Fox. Zadie Smith writes regularly for The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. She has received many honors including the City College of New York’s Langston Hughes Medal, the St. Louis Literary Award, the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, and the Bodley Medal. She is a member of the Royal Society of Literature, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of Creative Writing at New York University.