The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet, by Lawrence J. Friedman,  Columbia University Press, New York, 2013,  456 pp.

Erich Fromm, once a prominent figure in psychoanalytic circles and for the wider reading public, has been somewhat neglected in recent years, except for psychoanalytic institutions in which he was active. These include the William Alanson White Institute in New York, the Mexican Psychoanalytic Society, at an international level the IFPS (International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies), and a quite active International Erich Fromm Society. This scholarly biography by Lawrence Friedman is thus most timely in reaffirming Fromm's continuing relevance. A well-known biographer, the author has also addressed Erikson and Menninger in the field of psychoanalysis.

This is not the very first biography of Erich Fromm. The first was written by Funk in German in 1983, three years after Fromm's death in 1980. It is full of first-hand material, since the author cooperated closely with Fromm in the last years of his life as research assistant on To Have or to Be?, then became his literary executor and Editor of Fromm's Complete Works in German, and founded the IEFS (International Erich