Toni Cade Bambara

Details

Instance of

human

Born

25 March 1939, 1939

Died

9 December 1995, 1995

Place of birth

New York City

Place of death

Philadelphia

Sex or gender

female

Given name

Toni, Miltona

Family name

Cade

Field of work

poetry, documentary film

Occupation

poet, author, novelist, university teacher, writer, documentarian

Citizenship

United States

Awards

American Book Awards, Langston Hughes Medal

archives at

Spelman College Archives

birth name

Miltona Mirkin Cade

cause of death

colorectal cancer

described by source

Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers, American Women Writers, Metzler Autorinnen Lexikon (1 ed.), Notable Black American Women

educated at

City College of New York, Queens College

employer

Rutgers University

ethnic group

African Americans

influenced by

Quincy Troupe, Camille Yarbrough, Ida B. Wells, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Sarah Vaughan, Ishmael Reed, Lucille Clifton, Leslie Marmon Silko, Wendy Rose

languages spoken, written or signed

English

manner of death

natural causes

name in native language

Toni Cade Bambara

notable work

Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird, The Salt Eaters, Those bones are not my child

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