Twenty-five years on from her dazzling debut, and as a new collection of essays comes out, we assess the British author’s best books Twenty-five years on from her dazzling debut, and as a new collection of essays comes out, we assess the British author’s best books How do you follow a smash hit like White Teeth, which, as everyone now knows, sold for a six-figure sum while the author was still at university, and turned Zadie Smith into a literary superstar and poster girl for multiculturalism