Whenever there is Literatureity, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Child psychologist and writer                          

Selected Works:

A Study in Courage and Fear, Volume 1 of Children of Crisis - 1967
Dead End School, with illustrations by Norman Rockwell - 1968
The Image Is You, children's photos organized by Donald Erceg with text by Coles - 1969
Still Hungry in America, with photos by Al Clayton - 1969
Erik H. Erikson: the Growth of His Work - 1970
Uprooted Children: The Early Life of Migrant Farm Workers - 1970
Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers, Volume 2 of Children of Crisis - 1971
The South Goes North, Volume 3 of Children of Crisis - 1971
The Middle Americans; Proud and Uncertain, with photos by Jon Erikson - 1971
Farewell to the South - 1972
The Buses Roll, with photos by Carol Baldwin and Peter T. Whitney - 1974
William Carlos Williams: The knack of survival in America - 1975
The Mind's Fate: Ways of Seeing Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis - 1975
Eskimos, Indians, Chicanos, Volume 4 of Children of Crisis - 1977
The Privileged Ones: The Well-off and the Rich in America, Volume 5 of Children of Crisis - 1977
A Festering Sweetness: Poems of American People - 1978
The Last and First Eskimos, with photos by Alex Harris - 1978
Women of Crisis: Lives of struggle and hope, with Jane Hallowell Coles - 1978
Walker Percy: An American Search - 1979
Flannery O'Connor's South - 1980
I Will Always Stay Me: Writings of Migrant Children, edited by Sherry Kafka and Robert Coles - 1982
Photographs of a Lifetime, photos by Dorothea Lange with an essay by Coles - 1982
The Moral Life of Children - 1986
The Political Life of Children - 1986
Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion - 1987
Simone Weil; A Modern Pilgrimage - Diary: Reflections of the Sacred and the Secular - 1988
Times of Surrender: Selected Essays - 1988
The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination - 1989
Rumors of Separate Worlds: Poems - 1989
The Spiritual Life of Children - 1990
Anna Freud: The Dream of Psychoanalysis - 1992
Their Eyes Meeting the World: The Drawings and Paintings of Children, edited by Margaret Sartor - 1992
The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism - 1993
The Story of Ruby Bridges, illustrated by George Ford  - 1995
Doing Documentary Work - 1997
The Moral Intelligence of Children - 1997
Old and On Their Own, with photos by Alex Harris and Thomas Roma - 1997
The Youngest Parents: Teenage pregnancy as it shapes lives, with Robert E. Coles, Daniel A. Coles, Michael H. Coles, and photos by Jocelyn Lee and John Moses - 1997
The Secular Mind - 1999
The Erik Erikson Reader, selected and edited by Coles - 2000
Lives of Moral Leadership - 2000
Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology, edited by Robert Coles, Randy Testa, and Michael Coles - 2001
A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology, edited by Coles and Randy Testa - 2002
When They Were Young: A photographic restrospective of childhood from the Library of Congress - 2002
Bruce Springsteen's America: The People Listening, a Poet Singing - 2003
Teaching Stories: An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature, selected by Coles - 2004
Minding the Store: Great Writing About Business from Tolstoy to Now, edited by Coles and Albert LaFarge - 2008
Steve Lehman The Tibetans: A Struggle to Survive, pgs. 14-15, Introduction by Coles - 1998
Steve Lehman, Mark Bailey, and Rory Kennedy, American Hollow,pgs. 6-7, Foreword by Coles - 1999                          

Mother Sandra Young
Father Philip Coles