Coles, Robert

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COLES, Robert

COLES, Robert. American, b. 1929. Genres: Poetry, Paranormal, Psychiatry, Psychology, Social commentary, Sociology, Biography, Novellas/Short stories. Career: Research Psychiatrist, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1964. Chief, Neuropsychiatry Service, Biloxi, Mississippi Air Force Base, 1958-60. Publications: Children of Crisis: vol. I: A Study in Courage and Fear, 1967, vol. II: Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers, 1972, vol. III: The South Goes North, 1972, vol. IV: Eskimos, Chicanos, Indians, 1978, vol. V: Privileged Ones: The Well Off and Rich in America, 1978; Dead End School, 1968; Still Hungry in America, 1968; The Grass Pipe, 1969; The Image Is You, 1969; Uprooted Children: The Early Lives of Migrant Farmers, 1970; Drugs and Youth, 1970; Erik H. Erikson: The Growth of His Work, 1970; The Middle Americans, 1971; The Geography of Faith, 1971; A Spectacle unto the World, 1973; The Darkness and the Light, 1974; The Buses Roll, 1974; Irony in the Mind's Life, 1974; Headsparks, 1975; William Carlos Williams, 1975; The Mind's Fate, 1975; A Festering Sweetness (poetry), 1978; Women of Crisis: vol. I: Lives of Struggle and Hope, 1978, vol. II: Lives of Work and Dreams, 1980; The Last and First Eskimos, 1978; Walker Percy: An American Search, 1978; Flannery O'Connor's South, 1980; Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime, 1982; The Old Ones of New Mexico, 1984; (with R. Spears) Agee, 1985; (with G. Stokes) Sex and the American Teenager, 1985; The Moral (and Political) Life of Children, 2 vols., 1986; (with H. Levitt) In the Streets, 1987; Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage, 1987; Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion, 1987; The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination, 1989; Rumors of Separate Worlds, 1989; The Spiritual Life of Children, 1990; Their Eyes Meeting the World: The Drawings and Paintings of Children, 1992; The Call of Service, 1993; The Secular Mind, 1999; Lives of Moral Leadership, 2000. Address: Box 674, Concord, MA 01742, U.S.A.

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