Fulghum all i really need to know6/5/2023 There are currently more than 16 million copies of his books in print, published in 27 languages in 103 countries. 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. He came to prominence in the US when his first collection, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988), stayed on the New York Times bestseller lists for nearly two years. Previous to his professional careers, he also worked as a ditch-digger, newspaper carrier, ranch hand, salesman for IBM, and singing cowboy. He was a founding member of the authors' collective rock-and-roll band, "Rock Bottom Remainders". He sings, and plays the guitar and mando-cello. Fulghum is an accomplished painter and sculptor. He has worked as a Unitarian Universalist minister (at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship in Bellingham, Washington from 1960–64, and the Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church in Edmonds, Washington amongst other communities well into the 1980s).ĭuring this same period he taught drawing, painting, and philosophy at the Lakeside School in Seattle. Robert Lee Fulghum (born June 4, 1937) is an American author, primarily of short essays.
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