Robert Coles, Pulitzer-Winning Child Psychiatrist, Is Dead at 97

His five-volume “Children of Crisis” series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on his conversations with American children whose voices were not often heard.Robert Coles eschewed ideologies and psychiatric orthodoxies to visit the homes of children — first in the American South and then around the world — to listen intently to what they had to say.