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Robert Fulghum (born 1937) is an American author, primarily of short essays. He has worked as a Unitarian minister, artist, and teacher as well. | Robert Fulghum (born 1937) is an American author, primarily of short essays. He has worked as a Unitarian minister, 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. | + | 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 zoos, leaf-raking and dusting. | 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 zoos, leaf-raking and dusting. | ||
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[[Category: Adoptive Parents]] | [[Category: Adoptive Parents]] | ||
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Revision as of 22:30, 3 April 2014
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Biography
1937 –
Writer
Robert Fulghum (born 1937) is an American author, primarily of short essays. He has worked as a Unitarian minister, 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 zoos, leaf-raking and dusting.
References
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