Sara Wilford

American psychologist, teacher and author of the critically lauded Tough Topics: How to Use Books in Talking with Children About Life Issues and Problems and What you Need to Know When Your Child is Learning to Read. She taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1982 to 2014. She was the director of the Art of Teaching graduate program in early childhood and childhood education at the college from 1985 through 2014. Additionally, she was director of the college's Early Childhood Center for 21 years (1982–2003). She is a daughter of Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, a prominent philanthropist in medicine and art, and James Roosevelt, the oldest son of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Wilford's adoptive father was John Hay Whitney. Between 1953 and their 1972 divorce, she was married to the classical pianist Anthony di Bonaventura and had five children with him. She was married to Ronald A. Wilford from 1973 to his death in 2015. Link to Wikipedia biography