Nick Laird
Nicholas "Nick" Laird (born 1975, Northern Ireland) is a novelist and poet who was born, and grew up, in Cookstown, County Tyrone. He studied at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he attained a first in English. He went on to work at the global law firm Allen & Overy in London for six years, before leaving to concentrate on his writing. Since 2004, he has been married to novelist Zadie Smith whom he met while at Cambridge, they have a daughter, Katherine (Kit; born 2009). He participated in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six, with a piece he wrote based upon a chapter of the King James Bible.
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