The Call of Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Coles
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Education
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Doctors, Poetry or poets, Law or legislation, Creative process, Business or business people, Colleges or universities, Psychiatry or psychiatrists, Theology
Admirers of Robert Coles were not surprised to find in a recent issue of The New York Times Book Review a major review by Coles of Norman Sherry’s biography of Graham Greene (The Life of Graham Green, Vol 1: 1904-1939, reviewed in this volume). But what of readers unfamiliar with Coles? “Robert Coles is a child psychiatrist who teaches at Harvard University,” explained The New York Times, yet Coles’s review does not focus on Sherry’s interpretation of Greene’s boyhood. If anything, Coles is at pains to avoid any hint of psychological reductionism. In a...
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