Author

Books by Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) was a Martinique-born psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary. He trained in psychiatry in France and was posted to the Blida-Joinville Hospital in Algeria in 1953, where his work with patients on both sides of the independence war shaped The Wretched of the Earth. He joined the Algerian National Liberation Front in 1956 and served as its ambassador to Ghana. He was diagnosed with leukemia in 1960 and died in Washington, D.C., in December 1961, shortly after the book's publication. His earlier work Black Skin, White Masks, published in 1952, remains a foundational text in postcolonial theory.