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Creative Writing Lectures: Zadie Smith
Thursday, October 20, 7 pm
Miller Theatre

WRITING | Creative Writing Lecture Series
Now in its fifth year, CWLS brings distinguished writers to Columbia for original talks on literary craft. The writers are diverse and brilliant, with a wide range of artistic strategies, and each talk turns into a short course on the challenges of making vital literary art.

Zadie Smith is the author of three novels and a book of essays. Her first novel, White Teeth (2000), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and was included in Time Magazine’s 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923-2005. Her third novel, On Beauty (2005), won the Orange Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Granta, McSweeney’s, The Guardian, and VIBE, to name a few. In 2003 she was included on Granta’s list of 20 Best Young Authors. Her most recent book, Changing My Mind, was published in 2009 by Penguin Press. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at New York University.