The Stone that the Builder Refused

The Stone that the Builder Refusedis the final volume of Madison Smartt Bell's masterful trilogy about the Haitian Revolutionthe first successful slave revolution in historywhich begins withAll Souls' Rising(a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award) and continues withMaster of the Crossroads. Each of these three novels can be read independently of the two others; of the trilogy,The Baltimore Sunhas said, "[It] will make an indelible mark on literary historyone worthy of occupying the same shelf as Tolstoy'sWar and Peace."

Madison Smartt Bell is the author of fifteen works of fiction, including Master of the Crossroads; All Souls’ Rising; Save Me, Joe Louis; Doctor Sleep; Soldier's Joy; and Ten Indians. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his family and teaches at Goucher College.