Toni Cade Bambara

Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade, was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor. She wrote fiction, including The Salt Eaters and Gorilla, My Love, the latter a collection of stories about ordinary New Yorkers caught between family expectations and their own wants. Her other books include The Sea Birds Are Still Alive, a set of short stories, and Those Bones Are Not My Child. Bambara died in 1995.