Authors

Perri Klass

Dr. Perri Klass is an eminent pediatrician and professor of journalism and pediatrics at New York University. She is also the national medical director of Reach Out and Read, a childhood literacy program in the US. A multi-award-winning author of numerous books on parenting and medicine, she writes a weekly column—”The Checkup”—for the New York Times science section. She has three children.