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Author
Robert Fulghum has published seven best-selling books: All
I
Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, 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 and Words I Wish I
Wrote. There are currently more than 16 million copies
of his books in print, published
in 27 languages in 103 countries.
The fifteenth anniversary edition of All I Really Need to Know I
Learned in Kindergarten, reconsidered, revised, and expanded with
twenty-five new essays, was published by Ballantine Books and is
available in hardback, paperback and audio editions. A new
book of essays is being edited for publication this year in
English and other languages.
His novel, Third Wish, recently published in Czech by Argo
(in Prague),
will soon be published in Polish, Hungarian, and Slovakian.
Negotiations
are under way for further publication in Europe in Spanish,
Italian, and
German. The second volume of his novel will be published in
Europe this
fall.
Fulghum has performed in two television adaptations of his work
for
PBS, and is a Grammy nominee for the spoken word award. He
has been a speaker at numerous colleges, conventions, and public
events across the United States. He has been a
nationally-syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing has
been adapted for the stage in two theater pieces: All I
Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, and Uh-Oh,
Here Comes Christmas. There have been more than 700
national and international productions of the plays.
Robert Fulghum was born in 1937, and grew up in Waco, Texas.
In his
youth he worked as a ditch-digger, newspaper carrier, ranch hand,
and
singing cowboy. After college and a short career with IBM,
he returned
to graduate school to complete a degree in theology. For 22
years he
served as a parish minister of Unitarian churches in the Pacific
Northwest. During this same period he taught drawing,
painting, and
philosophy at the Lakeside School in Seattle. Fulghum is an
accomplished painter and sculptor. He sings, and plays the
guitar and mando-cello. He was a founding member of the
authors' collective rock-and-roll band, the Rock-Bottom
Remainders.
Robert Fulghum has four children and seven grandchildren. He
lives in
Seattle, Washington, and on the Greek island of Crete. |
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Don't
worry that children never listen to you;
worry that they are always watching you.
Robert
Fulghum
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