Richard J. Brenneman

American journalist and author who recorded and edited Buckminster Fuller's dialogue with children in Fuller's Earth.

Richard J. Brenneman (also bylined "Dick Brenneman") was an American newspaper journalist who wrote about Buckminster Fuller and later built a book around him. His signature contribution to the Fuller literature was the conceit of putting the aging Fuller together with three children and recording the exchange, producing an accessible introduction to Fuller's worldview.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: chronicler. Brenneman interviewed R. Buckminster Fuller and authored Fuller's Earth (subtitled A Day with Bucky and the Kids, St. Martin's Press, 1984), a memoir-and-dialogue book built around a recorded conversation between the eighty-five-plus-year-old Fuller and a ten-year-old girl and two twelve-year-old boys. Aware that Fuller's philosophic prose intimidated many readers, Brenneman took Fuller at his word that any child could follow his reasoning and staged the meeting to test it, pairing the transcribed dialogue with a "Basic Bucky" introduction. He had earlier covered Fuller as a newspaper reporter, including the 1980 article "When Fuller Talks, The World Listens."

See Also

• R. Buckminster Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller) — the central figure
• Fuller's Earth (Fuller's Earth) — the book he authored around Fuller

Sources

• Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions; no single work in this corpus anchors this figure.