Editing Frantz Fanon (section)

=== Early life ===
Frantz Omar Fanon was born on 20 July 1925 in [[Fort-de-France]], [[Martinique]], which was then part of the [[French colonial empire]]. His father, Félix Casimir Fanon, worked as a [[customs officer]], while Fanon's mother, Eléanore Médélice, who was of [[Afro-Caribbean people|Afro-Caribbean]] and [[Alsace|Alsatian]] descent, was a shopkeeper.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vfwJCAAAQBAJ |title=What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought |last1=Gordon |first1=Lewis R. |last2=Cornell |first2=Drucilla |date=1 January 2015 |publisher=Fordham University Press |isbn=9780823266081 |page=26 |language=en}}</ref> Fanon was the third of four sons in a family of eight children. Two of his siblings died young, including Fanon's sister Gabrielle, with whom he was very close. As they were [[middle class]], his family could afford to send Fanon to the [[Lycée Victor Schœlcher]], the most prestigious [[secondary school]] in Martinique, where Fanon came to admire one of his teachers, [[Aimé Césaire]].<ref name=EhlenBiog>Patrick Ehlen, ''Frantz Fanon: A Spiritual Biography'' (2001), New York: Crossroad 8th Avenue.</ref>