He lived with Moritz Moszkowski"s first wife Henriette, née Chaminade, younger sister of pianist and composer Cecile Chaminade. He visited the United States in 1906 on the invitation of the Germanistic Society. Due to being Jewish he was removed from his work by the Nazis in 1933.
Fulda committed suicide in Berlin in 1939 when he was denied entry into the United States.
He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts and the first president of the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association of Germany (1925–1932).