Author

Books by Robert Bringhurst

Robert Bringhurst is a Canadian poet, typographer, and scholar of indigenous oral literature. He has published more than twenty books of poetry as well as A Story as Sharp as a Knife, a major study of Haida oral narrative, and The Tree of Meaning, on language and ecology. He designed type for several decades before The Elements of Typographic Style became the standard reference in the field. Bringhurst received the Alcuin Society's award for excellence in book design and holds honorary doctorates from several Canadian universities. He lives in British Columbia.