Maryse Condwas born in Guadeloupe, a French territory of the Caribbean. She has taught extensively in Africa and the United States and is now a professor emerita at Columbia University, where she created the Center for French and Francophone Studies. She has written over twenty novels includingSegu, Windward Heights, The Story of the Cannibal Woman,andWho Slashed Celamire's Throat?and now divides her time between New York and Paris.Richard Philcox has published new translations of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin White Masks.