The 15th anniversary edition of All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, released in 2003, is available in hardback and paperback editions. What On Earth Have I Done? his most recent book of essays, was published in the fall of 2007 with a paperback release in October, 2008. More than 17 million copies of his books are in print, in 31 languages, in 103 countries.

THIRD WISH, Fulghum’s first novel, was first published in Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian adn Greek.  It is now available in English in both print and on Kindle™ from Amazon.

Fulghum, a Grammy nominee for the Spoken Word Award, has performed in two television adaptations of his work for PBS, has been a speaker at numerous colleges, conventions, and public events across the United States and Europe, and has authored a nationally-syndicated newspaper column.

His writing has been adapted for the stage in two theater pieces: All I Really Need to Know, and Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas, and performed in more than 3,000 national and international productions.

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 brief career with IBM, he returned to graduate school to complete a degree in theology. For 22 years he served as a Unitarian parish minister in the Pacific Northwest.

During the 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 and was a founding member of the The Rock-Bottom Remainders–a rock and roll band of author-muscians.

Robert Fulghum is married to the painter, Willow Bader (willowbader.com) He lives part-time in Seattle, Washington, Moab, Utah, and on the Greek island of Crete.