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.