Toni Cade Bambara

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

biography

After attending school, she studied theater studies at Queens College, City University of New York and graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Theater Arts). Subsequent postgraduate studies at the City University of New York (CUNY) she completed in 1964 with a Master of Arts (MA). Afterwards she was a professor at City College of New York (CCNY) between 1965 and 1969 and later also held professorships at Rutgers University in New Jersey and at Spelman College .

She made her literary debut in 1972 with a collection of short stories called 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) appeared.

The anthology Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions (1996) and another novel entitled Those Bones Are Not My Child (1999) appeared posthumously after her death from colorectal cancer .

Some of her books appeared while Toni Morrison was working as a publishing editor at Random House , which endeavored to establish Afro-American literature . Bambara and her generation companions Alice Walker , Toni Morrison and Ntozake Shange created a recognized place for black women in US literature for the first time in the early 1970s and also worked as an activist in the American civil rights movement.

It was included in the anthology Daughters of Africa , edited in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.

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SURNAME Bambara, Toni Cade
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miltona Mirkin Cade (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1995
Place of death Philadelphia , Pennsylvania