Robert Fulghum
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Robert Fulghum (born June 4, 1937) is an American author, primarily of short essays.
He has worked as a Unitarian minister (at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship in Bellingham, Washington from 1960-64 [1], and the Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church in Edmonds, Washington amongst other communities), artist, and teacher as well.
He came to prominence in the US when his first collection, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986), stayed on the New York Times bestseller lists for nearly two years.
Throughout this collection, subtitled "Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things," Fulghum expounds his down-home philosophy of seeing the world though the eyes of a child.
His prose style is very simple and direct, and finds life-affirming maxims in mundane matters as zoes, leaf-raking and dusting.
His other collections include:
- It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
- Uh-Oh
- Maybe (Maybe Not)
- From Beginning to End -- The Rituals of Our Lives
- True Love
- Words I Wish I Wrote
He has written one novel, titled Third Wish, continued in Third Wish II, The Rest of the Story, Almost.
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