← William Gardner SmithThe Last of the Conquerorsby William Gardner SmithNovel about a Black soldier's experience in postwar Germany confronting racism abroadFind on Amazon↗About the authorWilliam Gardner SmithWilliam Gardner Smith was a Black American journalist and novelist who spent most of his adult life in Paris, writing fiction about race, war, and exile. The Stone Face is a powerful novel of an African American in France during the Algerian war.More by William Gardner SmithThe Stone Face→South Street→Anger at Innocence→