{{Short description|American journalist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Orde M. Coombs | image = Orde M. Coombs.png | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1939|06|03}} | birth_place = Saint Vincent, Caribbean Islands | death_date = {{death date and age|1984|09|01|1939|06|03}} | death_place = New York City, New York, United States | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = {{unbulleted list|Yale University (BA)|New York University (MA)}} | occupation = Writer, editor | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | website = }} '''Orde Musgrave Coombs''' (June 3, 1939 – September 1, 1984) was an African-American writer and editor.<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=Orde Coombs, Writer, Dies;Former Editor at New York|date=September 1, 1984|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/01/obituaries/orde-coombs-writer-dies-former-editor-at-new-york.html|accessdate=November 19, 2015}}</ref>
==Biography== Coombs was born on Saint Vincent in the Caribbean in 1939. He received his B.A. degree from Yale University in 1965, where he was the first Black student initiated into the secret society Skull and Bones.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FMEDAAAAMBAJ | title=Oldest Yale Club Initiates First Negro | work=Jet | date=May 28, 1964 | accessdate=May 3, 2011 | pages=24 | volume=26 | issue=7}}</ref> He earned his M.A. degree from New York University in 1971. He then worked as an editor for Doubleday & Company and later for McCall Corporation.<ref name=NYT/> In addition to editing, he produced documentaries on West Indian culture, and was an adjunct professor at New York University. He was a co-host for ''Black Conversations'', a talk show on WPIX in 1975.<ref name=NYT/>
Coombs was featured on the cover of the November 20, 1972 issue of New York Magazine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yale1965.org/orde-musgrave-coombs/|website=Yale1965.org|title=Orde Musgrave Coombs}}</ref>
==Publications== *''Do You See My Love for You Growing?'' (1972) *''Drums of Life'' (1974, with Chester Higgins Jr.) *''Sleep Late With Your Dreams'' (1977) *''Some Time Ago: A Historical Portrait of Black Americans from 1850–1950'' (1980, with Chester Higgins Jr.).
==Editor== *''We Speak as Liberators: Young Black Poets'' (1970) *''What We Must See: Young Black Storytellers'' (1971) *''Is Massa Day Dead? Black Moods in the Caribbean'' (1974)
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|1472301}}
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