The Wretched of the Earth (Broché)

Biographie de Frantz Fanon

Born in 1925 in Martinique, Frantz Fanon studied medicine in France and later specialized in psychiatry. When he was twenty-seven he published his first book. He was assigned to a hospital in Algeria during the rising against the French. His experiences and observations there led him to throw in his lot with the "rebels" and he became one of their most articulate spokesmen. This and another book, L'An V de la Révolution Algérienne, were written at that time.
Fanon did not live to see peace restored to an autonomous Algeria. In 1961 it was discovered that he was suffering from leukaemia ; commitments to work forbade him leaving until it was too late to cure him. He was taken to Washington in late 1961 and died there in December of that year at the age of thirty-six. After his death a compilation of his theoretical writing was gathered together in a volume entitled The Revolutionary Thought of Frantz Fanon, and Black Skins, White Masks was published in England in 1967.