As a reader, I want to claim fellowship with "good writing" without limits; to be able to say that Hurston is my sister and Baldwin is my brother, an… - Zadie Smith

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As a reader, I want to claim fellowship with "good writing" without limits; to be able to say that Hurston is my sister and Baldwin is my brother, and so is Kafka my brother, and Nabokov, and Woolf my sister, and Eliot and Ozick. Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

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About Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith (born October 27, 1975) is a British novelist. Her fiction is mainly set in London.

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Alternative Names: Zadie Adeline Smith

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