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British novelist and essayist who burst onto the literary scene at 24 with 'White Teeth' (2000), a sprawling, comic novel about multicultural London that became a sensation. Subsequent novels — 'The Autograph Man,' 'On Beauty' (which won the Orange Prize), 'NW,' 'Swing Time,' and 'The Fraud' — cemented her reputation as one of the finest English-language novelists of her generation. Born to a Jamaican mother and English father in northwest London, her work explores race, class, identity, and the texture of contemporary urban life with intelligence, humor, and formal ambition. She teaches creative writing at NYU.
Source: Penguin Books UK