Author, activist, filmmaker and academic Toni Cade Bambara was born in Harlem, New York, in 1939. Bambara's award-winning fiction was celebrated during her lifetime for its centring of female characters and its grounding in African-American culture, spaces and dialects; she would later be inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. She died in Philadelphia in 1995.
A long, rich dream -- Anne Tyler A hymn to individual courage, a sombre message of hope * Times Literary Supplement * A book full of marvels * New Yorker * Daringly brilliant -- Gloria Hull Toni Cade Bambara's writing is so great it lifts you off the ground * New Statesman *