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Robert Coles (b. October 12, 1929) is an American author, developmental psychologist, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he attended Harvard, where he originally pursued literary interests until persuaded to go into medicine. He became a medical doctor in 1954 and moved to the South with plans to start a quiet practice as a child psychologist. Scenes of racial conflict he witnessed there led him to dedicate his efforts to documenting how children and their parents deal with profound change. His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1973 for his series of books Children of Crisis. He later co-founded the magazine DoubleTake, a high-quality magazine which documented the lives of ordinary people with photographs and articles. Coles has written over fifty books and writes regular columns for The New Republic, New Oxford Review, and American Poetry Review.
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Published works
A Study in Courage and Fear, Volume 1 of Children of Crisis (Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1967)
Dead End School, with illustrations by Norman Rockwell (Boston: Little, Brown, 1968)
The Image Is You, children's photos organized by Donald Erceg with text by Coles (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969)
Still Hungry in America, with photos by Al Clayton (New York: World Publishing Company, 1969)
Erik H. Erikson: the Growth of His Work (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970)
Uprooted Children: The Early Life of Migrant Farm Workers (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970) ISBN 0822931923
Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers, Volume 2 of Children of Crisis (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971)
The South Goes North, Volume 3 of Children of Crisis (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971)
The Middle Americans; Proud and Uncertain, with photos by Jon Erikson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971)
Farewell to the South (Boston: Little, Brown, 1972) ISBN 0316151580
The Buses Roll, with photos by Carol Baldwin and Peter T. Whitney (New York: Norton, 1974) ISBN 0393055299
William Carlos Williams: The knack of survival in America (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1975) ISBN 0813508002
Eskimos, Indians, Chicanos, Volume 4 of Children of Crisis (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977) ISBN 0316151629
The Privileged Ones: The Well-off and the Rich in America, Volume 5 of Children of Crisis (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977) ISBN 0316151491
A Festering Sweetness: Poems of American People (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsbrugh Press, 1978) ISBN 0822952904
The Last and First Eskimos, with photos by Alex Harris (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1978) ISBN 0821207377
Women of Crisis: Lives of struggle and hope, with Jane Hallowell Coles (New York: Delacorte Press, 1978) ISBN 0440095360
"Flannery O'Connor's South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980) ISBN 0807106550
I Will Always Stay Me: Writings of Migrant Children, edited by Sherry Kafka and Robert Coles (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1982) ISBN 0932012272
Photographs of a Lifetime, photos by Dorothea Lange with an essay by Coles (Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1982) ISBN 0893811009
The Moral Life of Children (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986) ISBN 0871130343
The Political Life of Children (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986)
Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1987) ISBN 0201028298
Simone Weil; A Modern Pilgrimage (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1987) ISBN 0201022052
Harvard Diary: Reflections of the Sacred and the Secular (New York: Crossroad, 1988)
Times of Surrender: Selected Essays (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988) ISBN 0877451885
The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989) ISBN 0395429358
Rumors of Separate Worlds: Poems (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989) ISBN 087745258X
The Spiritual Life of Children (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990) ISBN 0395559995
Anna Freud: The Dream of Psychoanalysis (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1992) ISBN 0201577070
Their Eyes Meeting the World: The Drawings and Paintings of Children, edited by Margaret Sartor (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992) ISBN 0395611296
The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993) ISBN 0395710847
The Story of Ruby Bridges, illustrated by George Ford (New York: Scholastic, 1995) ISBN 0590439677
Doing Documentary Work (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) ISBN 0195116291
The Moral Intelligence of Children (New York: Random House, 1997) ISBN 067944811X
Old and On Their Own, with photos by Alex Harris and Thomas Roma (New York: Center for Documentary Studies/Norton, 1997) ISBN 0393046060
The Youngest Parents: Teenage pregnancy as it shapes lives, with Robert E. Coles, Daniel A. Coles, Michael H. Coles, and photos by Jocelyn Lee and John Moses (New York: Center for Documentary Studies, 1997) ISBN 0393040828
The Secular Mind (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999) ISBN 0691058059
The Erik Erikson Reader, selected and edited by Coles (New York: Norton, 2000) ISBN 0393048454
Lives of Moral Leadership (New York: Random House, 2000) ISBN 0375501088
Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology, edited by Robert Coles, Randy Testa, and Michael Coles (New York: New Press, 2001) ISBN 1565846230
A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology, edited by Coles and Randy Testa (New York: New Press, 2002) ISBN 1565847296
When They Were Young: A photographic restrospective of childhood from the Library of Congress (Carlsbad, California: Kales Press/Library of Congress, 2002) ISBN 0967007658
Bruce Springsteen's America: The People Listening, a Poet Singing (New York: Random House, 2003) ISBN 0375505598
Teaching Stories: An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature, selected by Coles (New York: Modern Library, 2004) ISBN 0812971698
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Further reading
Ronda, Bruce A. Intellect and Spirit: The Life and Work of Robert Coles. New York: Continuum, 1989.
Woodruff, Jay, and Sarah Carew (eds.). Conversations with Robert Coles. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
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