2 Claude Lanzmann, as cited by David Macey in Frantz Fanon: A Life (London: Granta Books, 2000), 489-90. Much of the biographical detail and personal incident comes from Simone de Beauvoir’s account of Fanon in The Force of Circumstance, and from David Macey’s remarkably informed biography.

3 Joseph Alsop, “Passing of New Left’s Hero an Odd Facet of U.S. History,” in Washington Post, February 21, 1969, A21.

4 Macey, 489.

5 Ibid.

6 de Beauvoir, 329.