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Toni Cade Bambara (). Best known for short stories set in the urban landscape of her youth, Toni Cade Bambara's fiction and criticism are informed by her work as educator, social worker, and activist. While her only novel, The Salt Eaters (), received mixed reviews, her short story collections, Gorilla, My Love () and The Sea Birds Are Still Alive (), are highly regarded for their astute representations of the inner struggles of the young, their skilled synthesis of social and political themes with inquiries into the nature of identity and community, and Bambara's dexterous use of language in evoking the cadences and nuances of African American life. Bambara's documentation and celebration of the inner lives and struggles of ordinary African Americans and her challenge to consider the responsibilities inherent in transforming one's life constitute a singular contribution to American literature.*

Genre: Literary fiction

*Toni Cade Bambara. In Murray, Madeline D. “BAMBARA, Toni Cade.” Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, January 25, , 67– . Literary Reference Center.

American author, activist, professor (–)

Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade^[1] (March 25, – December 9, ),^[2] was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor.

Biography

Early life and education

Miltona Mirkin Cade was born in Harlem, New York, to parents Walter and Helen (Henderson) Cade. She grew up in Harlem, Bedford Stuyvesant (Brooklyn), Queens, and New Jersey. At the age of six, she changed her name from Miltona to Toni, and then in , changed her name to include the name of a West African ethnic group, Bambara, after finding the name written as part of a signature on a sketchbook discovered in a trunk among her great-grandmother's other belongings.^[1][3][4]

With her new name, she felt it represented "the accumulation of experiences", in which she had finally discovered her purpose in the world.^[5] In , Bambara had a daughter, Karma Bene Bambara Smith, with her partner Gene Lewis, an actor and a family friend.^[6]

Bambara attended Queens College in , where almost the entire undergraduate student population was white. At first, she planned to become a doctor, but her passion for arts directed her to becom