Dr. Robert Coles

DR. ROBERT COLES was a child psychiatrist, academic, and the author of more than 50 books, including Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion, The Moral Life of Children, and The Spiritual Life of Children.

Coles received the Pulitzer Prize for his five-volume Children of Crisis series and was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He served as Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities at Harvard Medical School and as the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University, with which he was associated from 1960.

Robert Coles was born in Boston on October 12, 1928, and died on June 4, 2026. He lived in Massachusetts.

Dr. Robert Coles’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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