Robert Fulghum was born on June 4, 1937 in Waco, TX. He is a Unitarian
Universalist minister and American author. He has written more than a dozen books.
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on
Common Things was published in 1988 and has since sold more than seven million
copies. It is a series of essays based on the idea that the little things in life are also
the most important. Amazon tells us that ". . . Fulghum engages us with musings on
life, death, love, pain, joy, sorrow, and the best chicken-fried steak
in the continental United States."