紮迪•史密斯(Zadie Smith，1975—)

英國當代最具影響力的作傢之一，被權威雜誌《Granta》選為20位最佳青年作傢之一。2000年，處女作《白牙》使她一躍成為萬眾矚目的文壇巨星，此書甫一齣版便榮獲惠特布萊德圖書奬、布萊剋紀念奬、英聯邦作傢處女作奬、《衛報》最佳處女作奬、法蘭剋福電子書最佳小說奬；2005年，作品《關於美》入圍布剋奬決選，並在2006年獲得橘子圖書奬。《改變思想》作為第一本隨筆集，展現瞭其豐富幽深的內心世界，贏得瞭諸多好評。

A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith's nonfiction over the past decade.

Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.

Split into four sections-"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling"- Changing My Mind invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith's unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays-some published here for the first time-on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani.

In her investigations Smith also reveals much of herself. Her literary criticism shares the wealth of her experiences as a reader and exposes the tremendous influence diverse writers-E. M. Forster, Zora Neale Hurston, George Eliot, and others-have had on her writing life and her self-understanding. Smith also speaks directly to writers as a craftsman, offering precious practical lessons on process. Here and throughout, readers will learn of the wide-ranging experiences-in novels, travel, philosophy, politics, and beyond-that have nourished Smith's rich life of the mind. Her probing analysis offers tremendous food for thought, encouraging readers to attend to the slippery questions of identity, art, love, and vocation that so often go neglected.

Changing My Mind announces Zadie Smith as one of our most important contemporary essayists, a writer with the rare ability to turn the world on its side with both fact and fiction. Changing My Mind is a gift to readers, writers, and all who want to look at life more expansively.