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William Gardner Smith (February 6, 1927 – November 5, 1974) was an American journalist, novelist, and editor. Smith is linked to the black social protest novel tradition of the 1940s and the 1950s, [ 1 ] a movement that became synonymous with writers such as Richard Wright , Ralph Ellison , Willard Motley , and Ann Petry .
New York: New York Review of Books Classics, 2022, 240 pages, $10.99 paperback. William Gardner Smith. THE STONE FACE, republished this past year after nearly six decades, remains a novel downright fearless in its quest to unsettle. A work of historical fiction, the book’s central characters are a tight-knit coterie of Black American ...
Jul 13, 2021 · When William Gardner Smith submitted what would be his final novel, THE STONE FACE (New York Review Books, paper, $16.95), to a French publisher, his friend and biographer LeRoy Hodges recalled ...
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Aug 8, 2014 · Beginning with Licence Renewed in 1981, Gardner, a former Marine commando, espionage writer and author of a James Bond parody series about a cowardly British spy, wrote 14 James Bond novels.
of the black satirists Rudolph Fisher, George Schuyler (author of the bizarre fantasy, Black No More), and Wallace Thurman. The two best chapters in the book follow. Chapter 5 centers on Richard Wright and the novelists of the forties whom he influenced: William Attaway, Chester Himes, Ann Petry, and William Gardner Smith. Bell is not only ...
Dec 5, 2019 · Depending on the source, Smith was born in 1926 or 1927, but certainly in Philadelphia, Pa. He discovered at a very early age “that he had a flair for writing,” according to noted critic ...
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Dec 1, 2022 · Leadership in Organizations is a recent book authored by well known leadership scholars Drs. Gary Yukl and William Gardner. Their book attempts to bridge the gap in scholarship and practice by incorporating the process and practice of leadership for those in any organizations.
