Robert R. Potter

Author of the juvenile biography Buckminster Fuller (Silver Burdett Press, 1990).

Robert R. Potter was a writer of biographies for young readers. His volume on Fuller appeared in the "Pioneers in Change" series from Silver Burdett Press, edited by Richard Gallin, presenting the life of a difficult subject in an accessible narrative form for a juvenile audience.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: chronicler. Potter wrote a book-length biography of R. Buckminster Fuller, published in 1990. The book opens with Fuller's famously corrected farsighted childhood — his inability, until age four, to see anything but large patterns — and follows the personal arc through teenage troubles, the frowns of fortune, the Stockade years, and the Dymaxion days. Written for young readers, it charts the private trials and losses behind Fuller's public reinvention rather than dwelling on the geometry, making Potter one of the more approachable chroniclers of Fuller's life story. This entry merges the corpus's duplicate "Robert Potter" record.

See Also

• R. Buckminster Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller) — the central figure
• Buckminster Fuller (Potter) (Buckminster Fuller (Potter)) — the biography he wrote
• Donald W. Robertson (Donald W. Robertson) — another book-length chronicler of Fuller

Sources

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