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Robert Fulghum

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The Resume

    (June 4, 1937- )
    Born in Waco, Texas
    Author and Universalist Unitarian minister
    Best known for the essay collection 'All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten' (1988)
    Last name pronounced 'FUL-jum'

Why he might be annoying:

    When he asked his publisher why his books sold well in the Czech Republic, she replied, 'It's because your translator is a much better writer than you are.'
    'Publishers Weekly' wrote about 'All I Really Need to Know...,' 'Fulghum approaches each topic here with lump-in-the-throat sentimentality.'
    Not to put too fine a point on it, but there's plenty of things we needed to know that we didn't learn until well after kindergarten.

Why he might not be annoying:

    The paperback rights for 'All I Really Need to Know...' sold for $2.1 million, setting a record for a non-fiction book.
    He turned down several licensing requests to print aphorisms from 'All I Really Need to Know...' on mugs and t-shirts.
    He donated his royalties from the book 'Words I Wish I Wrote' to Human Rights Watch.
    He said, 'I'll never get the Nobel Prize or a Pulitzer Prize, but I've won the refrigerator door award. And you don't see Faulkner on people's refrigerators.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying