Meet 2021 St. Louis Literary Award Honoree Zadie Smith

11/01/2021

The Saint Louis University community is invited to participate in a meet and greet with 2021 St. Louis Literary Award honoree Zadie Smith Friday morning at Pius XII Memorial Library. 

Smith will be available to meet with the SLU community from 9-9:50 a.m. Friday, Nov. 5, on the second floor of Pius Library. Kaldi’s Coffee Roasting is supplying food and coffee. 

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels “White Teeth,” “The Autograph Man,” “On Beauty,” “NW,” and “Swing Time,” as well as essay collections “Changing My Mind” and “Feel Free.”

The meet and greet is one of three opportunities for the SLU community to hear from the British author this week. Smith will receive the 2021 St. Louis Literary Award at an event Thursday, Nov. 4. The event will include a discussion moderated by Christopher Tinson, Ph.D., chair of SLU’s Department of African American Studies.

Later on Friday, the SLU community is invited to a craft talk with Smith in Cook Hall.