Old and on Their Own (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Coles
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Biography and psychology
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Psychology
- Subjects: History, Philosophy or philosophers, Psychology or psychologists, Death or dying, Ethics, Health, Old age or elderly people, Longevity
- Locales: United States
Robert Coles, James Agee professor of social ethics at Harvard University and a child psychiatrist, has published more than thirty books, most concerning his studies of children and young people. Coles’s research and writing, begun in the 1960’s in the Civil Rights movement-era South, is informed with compassion for his subjects and a zeal to understand personal values as reflected in the inner and outer lives of his subjects. In his introduction to Old and on Their Own, Coles writes that visiting older people has been his lifelong habit, one that to him seemed a natural...
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