John Edgar Wideman was the first two-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novels Sent for You Yesterday and Philadelphia Fire. His first new novel in a decade, Fanon conjures the life and message of Frantz Fanon, whose book The Wretched of the Earth inspired revolutionaries like Steve Biko and Che Guevara. In a work that is part fiction and part biography, Wideman traces the legacy of Fanon through a post 9/11 world, a world that seems determined to perpetuate the evils he sought to rectify.