Robert Coles

12 October 1929 – 4 Jun 2026

American author, child psychiatrist, and professor emeritus at Harvard University.

• The Story of Ruby Bridges
• On writing short stories
• Children of Crisis
• Erik H. Erikson
• The Call of Service
• The Moral Life of Children
• A Life in Medicine
• Agee
• Black Writers Abroad: A Study of Black American Writers in Europe and Africa (Studies in African American History and Culture)
• Forgetting ourselves on purpose
• Lives of moral leadership
• Simone Weil