Toni Cade Bambara
American novelist and short-story writer whose vibrant fiction celebrated Black community life and feminist politics. Gorilla, My Love is one of the most celebrated short-story collections in African American literature. Her novel The Salt Eaters won the American Book Award.
Works
- The Salt EatersWoman healer facilitates transformation and wholeness for struggling community
- Gorilla, My LoveStories of African American girls navigating childhood in voice-driven narratives
- The Sea Birds Are Still AliveConnected stories of Vietnamese, African American, and Caribbean freedom struggles
- Those Bones Are Not My ChildWoman reconstructs daughter's life after her death and discovery of truth