Dec 19, 2009
Robert Martin Coles is a leading authority on the lives of the socially and economically deprived, especially children; he has also produced a substantial body of literary criticism and biography, directed not at fellow academics but at the general reader. He was born to Philip Winston, a politically conservative engineer who was trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Sandra Young Coles, a deeply religious woman who both praised his accomplishments and warned against pride and self-centeredness. Coles’s excellent education and training began in the prestigious...
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