Orde M. Coombs

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Orde M. Coombs (June 3, 1939 – September 1, 1984) was an African American writer and editor.

He was born on Saint Vincent in the Caribbean in 1939. He received his B.A. degree from Yale University in 1965 and his M.A. degree from New York University in 1971. He then worked as an editor for Doubleday & Company and later for McCall Publishing Company. 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.

[edit] 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.).

[edit] 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)