Vivian Paley

Vivian Gussin Paley, born in 1929, is a noted kindergarten teacher, child psychologist and early childhood education researcher. Now retired, she taught and did most of her research at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. She was the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship and is the author of "White Teacher," "Wally's Stories", "Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner" (1984), "Mollie is Three: Growing Up in School", "Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays: Fantasy Play at Four" (1988), "The Boy Who Would Be A Helicopter" (1990), and "You Can't Say You Can't Play", "Kwanzaa and Me" (1995), and " The Girl With the Brown Crayon" (1997).