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Taqi Modarresi
Iranian writer and child psychiatrist
Taqi Modarressi (Persian: ) was an Iranian writer and child psychiatrist. He was born in Tehran, the son of a lawyer, and grew up in a highly cultured family.
He was related to a noted progressive cleric Mirza Sayyed Mohammad Tabatabai through his mother's side.[1]
Biography
He trained as a doctor at Tehran University, but after being harassed by the security forces of the Shah, he migrated to the USA in He worked in Wichita, Kansas, then took up a residency at Duke University.
After he married the writer Anne Tyler in , they moved to Montreal, where he took up a residency at McGill University.
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He joined the faculty at the University of Maryland medical school in , specializing in child development. In , he founded the pioneering research center, Center for Infant Study.
He had two daughters with Anne Tyler, the artist Tezh Modarressi and the writer Mitra Modarressi.
He died of lymphoma in