Robert Bringhurst

Robert Bringhurst OC
Bringhurst in 2016
Born	(1946-10-16) October 16, 1946 (age 78) Los Angeles, California, US
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Indiana University, Bloomington University of British Columbia
Occupations	Poet typographer writer
Notable work	The Elements of Typographic Style (1992)
Spouse	Jan Zwicky

Robert Bringhurst OC^[1] (born 1946) is a Canadian^[2] poet, typographer and author. He has translated substantial works from Haida and Navajo and from classical Greek and Arabic. He wrote The Elements of Typographic Style, a reference book of typefaces, glyphs and the visual and geometric arrangement of type. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in June 2013.^[1]

He lives on Quadra Island, near Campbell River, British Columbia (approximately 170 km northwest of Vancouver) with his wife, Jan Zwicky, a poet and philosopher.