Robert Coles. Twayne Publishers, United States Authors Series, 1997. Print.
Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the MacArthur Award, Robert Coles is author of more than 50 books of on such subjects as psychoanalysis, integration, the social psychology of children and adults, photography, literature, and spirituality. He is best known for his series “Children of Crisis,” an account of mainly poor and minority children of the U.S. in the 1960s and 70s, and “The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination”. This overview gives shape to Coles’s work and identifies as major themes in his work the quest and the tension among three aspects of the searching mind the scientist, the artist, and the pilgrim
