Toni Cade Bambara

Toni Cade Bambara (birth name: Miltona Mirkin Cade ) ( born March 25, 1939 in New York City; † 9 December 1995 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American writer, poet and high school teacher.

Biography

After school, she studied theater arts at Queens College, City University of New York and graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Theatre Arts) from. A subsequent post-graduate studies at the City University of New York ( CUNY ), she finished in 1964 with a Master of Arts ( MA). Then she herself was 1965-1969 Professor at the City College of New York ( CCNY ) and was later a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey and at Spelman College held.

Her literary debut was in 1972 with a collection of short stories entitled Gorilla, My Love. After another collection of short stories under the title The Sea Birds Are Still Alive: Collected Stories (1977 ), the novels The Salt Eaters (1980 ) and If Blessing Comes (1987 ) published.

The anthology Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions (1996 ), another novel titled Those Bones Are Not My Child (1999 ) published posthumously after her death due to colorectal cancer.

Some of her books were published during the occupation of Toni Morrison as a publishing editor at Random House, which sought the establishment of African-American literature. This Bambara managed with their generation companions Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Ntozake Shange in the early 1970s for the first time black women have a recognized place in the U.S. literature and also worked as an activist in the American civil rights movement.