New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. dj. Hardcover first edition - Disguised as the project of a contemporary African American novelist named Thomas, Wideman creates a fictional portrait of the life of Frantz Fanon, philosopher, psychiatrist, political activist, and author of The Wretched of the Earth - one which chronicles Fanon's life, from his Martinique upbringing through the publication of his influential work and his legacy in a post-9/11 world. 227 pp. ISBN: 978-0618942633.