EPISODE · Apr 4, 2022 · 17 MIN
Robert Fulghum
from Now I've Heard Everything · host Bill Thompson
Back around 1988 or '89, you could hardly go anywhere without seeing a little book written by a former Unitarian minister called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Readers all over the world were struck by the simplicity and elegance and wisdom of that little book. That man was Robert Fulghum, and his book stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for two years. Here's how he summed up the book when he and I first talked about it in 1988: A year later, we met again, to talk about his sequel, a book called It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It.
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Back around 1988 or '89, you could hardly go anywhere without seeing a little book written by a former Unitarian minister called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Readers all over the world were struck by the simplicity and elegance and wisdom of that little book. That man was Robert Fulghum, and his book stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for two years. Here's how he summed up the book when he and I first talked about it in 1988: A year later, we met again, to talk about his sequel, a book called It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It.
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