Taghi modarressi biography of michael
He was born to Esmāʿil Modarresi, a lawyer, and Rāżia Ṭabāṭabāʾi, a great grand daughter of Sayyed Moḥammad Ṭabāṭabāʾi, a noted progressive cleric of the.!
Taqi Modarresi
Iranian writer and child psychiatrist
Taqi Modarressi (Persian: 1932-1997) was an Iranian writer and child psychiatrist.
Taghi Modarressi's stunning accomplishment is that he has written a novel that is wholly accessible to the reader of both English and Persian.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 1959.
He worked in Wichita, Kansas, then took up a residency at Duke University. After he married the writer Anne Tyler in 1963, they moved to Montreal, where he took up a residency at McGill University.
Modarressi, a native of Iran who has written two earlier novels in Persian, is a psychiatrist who heads the Infant Study program at the University of Maryland.
He joined the faculty at the University of Maryland medical school in 1967, specializing in child development. In 1982, 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