Psychiatrist Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Who Championed Needs of Children, Dies
He documented poverty and social unrest in more than 50 books, and his Children of Crisis series won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize.
- Harvard University professor Robert Coles, a Pulitzer Prize-winning psychiatrist who documented children's experiences with poverty and segregation, died Thursday at 97. His son Michael Coles confirmed the death at a hospice center in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
- Coles's psychiatric career began while serving as an Air Force doctor in the South during the early 1960s, where he documented 6-year-old Ruby Bridges integrating a New Orleans elementary school, praising her "moral stamina."
- The psychiatrist authored more than 50 books, winning the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for his five-volume series "Children of Crisis." He utilized oral histories to capture perspectives of children facing social upheaval and economic hardship.
- Coles received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 1981, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998, and the National Humanities Medal in 2001. These honors recognized his contributions to documenting American social and political upheaval.
- A longtime Harvard University professor, Coles taught the popular "Literature of Social Reflection" course, nicknamed "Guilt 105," where he stressed that "we should look inward and think about the meaning of our life and its purposes" until retiring in 2003.
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Psychiatrist Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author who championed needs of children, dies
Harvard University psychiatrist and author Robert Coles has died. His son, also named Robert Coles, says his father passed away at 97 at a hospice center in Lincoln, Massachusetts, on Thursday.
Robert Coles, Pulitzer-winning psychiatrist who shaped public policy, dies at 97 - The Boston Globe
Dr. Coles won international renown, and a Pulitzer Prize, for his work on the inner lives of children, and his research helped shape policies from the classroom to the White House.
Psychiatrist Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author who championed needs of children, dies – UK Times
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