Bambara, Toni Cade
Bambara, Toni Cade( 1939–95),in addition to dealing with civil rights and teaching African-American studies in American universities, is known for her books Gorilla, My Love (1970) and The Sea Birds Are Still Alive (1977), short stories about black people in both the North and the South. Her first novel, The Salt Eaters (1980), features two black women of Georgia. When Bambara died of colon cancer, she left unfinished a novel about the 1980s Atlanta child murders; her friend and editor Toni Morrison brought that work to publication as Those Bones Are Not My Child (1999). The posthumous collection Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations appeared in 1996.
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