Robert Fulghum

Robert Fulghum (born June 4, 1937) is an American author, primarily of short essays.

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He has worked as a Unitarian minister (at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship in Bellingham, Washington from 1960-64 http://www.bellinghamherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050908/ENT/509080322, and the Edmonds Unitarian Church in Edmonds, Washington amongst other communities), artist, and teacher as well.

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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.

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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.

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His prose style is very simple and direct, and finds life-affirming maxims in mundane matters as zoos, leaf-raking and dusting.

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His other collections include:

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• 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.

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