"David Macey has written a prodigiously researched, absorbing book about the mind and the passion of a twentieth-century revolutionary. Frantz Fanon is the first comprehensive biography in three decades; it is also the best, the most intellectually rigorous and the most judicious." The New York Times Book Review "David Macey's richly informative and engaging biography provides the historical, social and cultural context that is essential for understanding this passionate and courageous intellectual." The Washington Post "In the first biography in some time, Macey offers a sensitive and powerful account of Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary, psychiatrist, Third World theorist, and author . Macey's writing and research is rich with historical context and personal information." Library Journal (starred) "David Macey's Frantz Fanon is this year's biographical tour de force." New Statesman "Not just a lucid and well-researched account of the man and his works, it is one of the best books about contemporary history to have been published in recent years." Literary Review "A fascinating study of a passionate and intelligent thinker.

" Scotland on Sunday "Macey does a terrific job throughout reconstructing the contexts in which Fanon conceived and wrote his works, and the terms with which one might best approach them. The book will be invaluable to scholars, but those looking for an entr into postwar Francophone literature and its political militancy will find this book an excellent guide to notoriously thorny works, and to their author, who died of cancer soon after his illness was discovered." Publishers Weekly.