Smith attended the local state schools, Malorees Junior School and Hampstead Comprehensive School, then King's College, Cambridge, where she studied English literature. Despite earlier ambitions, literature emerged as her principal interest. While at university, Smith earned money as a jazz singer, and wanted to become a journalist. As a child, Smith was fond of tap dancing, and in her teenage years, she considered a career in musical theatre. She has a half-sister, a half-brother, and two younger brothers (one is the rapper and stand-up comedian Doc Brown, and the other is the rapper Luc Skyz). Smith's parents divorced when she was a teenager. Smith's mother grew up in Jamaica and emigrated to England in 1969. At the age of 14, she changed her name from Sadie to Zadie. Sadie Smith was born on 25 October 1975 in Willesden to a Jamaican mother, Yvonne Bailey, and an English father, Harvey Smith, who was 30 years his wife's senior. She has been a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University since September 2010. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Recorded September 2013 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs
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