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Robert Coles

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Robert Coles is a child psychiatrist who has spent his working life trying to understand the lives of children from a variety of backgrounds. The result of that effort has been a series of books that tell of the particular lives of boys and girls who live in different regions of the United States, and in foreign countries.

Dr. Coles is a research psychiatrist for the Harvard University Health Services and a Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities at the Harvard Medical School. He is also the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University. He has offered courses at Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, the Harvard School of Education, and Harvard Extension School. He has been a visiting professor at Duke University in the History Department for many years, is a founding member of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and is a co-editor of Double Take Magazine, published at the Center. Dr. Coles received his A.B. from Harvard and his M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Since 1961, Dr. Coles has published more than 1,300 articles, reviews, and essays in newspapers, magazines, journals, and anthologies. His 60 books include: Children of Crisis (in five volumes); Erik H. Erikson: The Growth of His Work; The Middle Americans; Walker Percy: An American Search; The Old Ones of New Mexico; Flannery O'Connor's South; Women of Crisis (with Jane Coles, in two volumes); The Moral Life of Children; The Political Life of Children; Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion; Times of Surrender; Harvard Diary(Volumes I & II); The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination; The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism and Doing Documentary Work.

—Courtesy of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Recommended Reading

Children of Crisis by Robert Coles (2003).
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