Toni Cade Bambara is the author of two short story collections,Β Gorilla, My LoveΒ andΒ The Sea Birds Are Still Alive;Β a novel,Β The Salt Eaters;Β and a collection of fiction, essays, and conversations,Β Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions. Her writings continue to appear in literature anthologies around the world. A noted documentary filmmaker and screenwriter, Bambaraβs film work includes the documentariesΒ The Bombing of Osage AvenueΒ andΒ W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices. She died in 1995.