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 through 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.
Eventually his books were transformed into a stage production sharing the same title as his first book, conceived and adapted by Ernest Zulia, with music and lyrics by David Caldwell. The play is based off of all eight books, and is an optional musical.
