British writer Zadie Smith has published only two novels: White Teeth, winner of two major literary awards and with over one million copies in print, and The Autograph Man. Smith burst into the international fiction scene with the publication of her...

The most remarkable success story of a young black author in recent years belongs to a 25-year-old English woman named Zadie Smith. In the past year Smith, who comes from a working-class Jamaican family, has become a darling of the literary world both in...

Beauty and brilliance, talent, marriage to an acclaimed poet, financial success, and great good luck. Novelist Zadie Smith, 29, has all of these things as her new novel, "On Beauty," gets bravura reviews, ascends the US bestseller lists, and contends for Britain's top literary...

Nigeria's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won Britain's Orange Prize for fiction by women, becoming the first African to take the award in its 12-year history, organizers said Wednesday.Adichie, 29, also the youngest author to have won the prize, was awarded for novel "Half of a Yellow...

Hill and Bill cry and pry their way into a squeaker victory in New Hampshire. (Who cares if the blogosphere is crackling with questions about those curious voting machine vs. paper ballot discrepancies!) Well, at least Hillary’s obscene dramatization of human emotion has had a...