WRITER

Zadie Smith

1975 - Today

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Zadie Smith (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zadie Smith has received more than 3,198,692 page views. Her biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Zadie Smith is the 6,087th most popular writer (down from 5,816th in 2019), the 4,989th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,166th in 2019) and the 558th most popular British Writer.

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  • 3.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zadie Smith ranks 6,087 out of 7,302Before her are Viivi Luik, Lee Strobel, Mariz Kemal, Robin Morgan, Katie Couric, and Miklós Haraszti. After her are Margaret Drabble, Coventry Patmore, Owen Barfield, Peter Orlovsky, Aglaja Veteranyi, and János Batsányi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Zadie Smith ranks 229Before her are Vittorio Arrigoni, Yusaku Maezawa, Nicky Butt, Toni Nieminen, Ozan Güven, and Mark Ronson. After her are Reggie Lee, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ilya Ponomarev, Alicia Witt, Zakhar Prilepin, and Manuela Velasco.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Zadie Smith ranks 4,989 out of 8,785Before her are Omid Djalili (1965), Gilbert White (1720), Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873), Duncan James (1978), Jimmy Murphy (1910), and Laura Knight (1877). After her are W. H. R. Rivers (1864), Mary Peters (1939), Margaret Drabble (1939), Claude Buckenham (1876), Dorothy Shirley (1939), and Coventry Patmore (1823).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Zadie Smith ranks 558Before her are Malcolm Gladwell (1963), John Braine (1922), Denise Levertov (1923), Thomas Traherne (1636), Hammond Innes (1913), and Chris Claremont (1950). After her are Margaret Drabble (1939), Coventry Patmore (1823), Owen Barfield (1898), John Betjeman (1906), Eva Crane (1912), and George Grove (1820).