Child psychiatrist Robert Coles dies at 97 (opens in new tab)

Robert Coles, a Harvard University psychiatrist and author who won a Pulitzer Prize and focused much of his work on children, has died at 97. The New York Times described him as a child psychiatrist whose five-volume “Children of Crisis” series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on conversations with American children whose voices were rarely heard. The Washington Post reported that Coles’s encounter with civil rights figure Ruby Bridges helped lead him to spend his career documenting the...