Bryan A. Garner
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Garner (left) working on a book with Antonin Scalia in 2007 | |
| Born | Bryan Andrew Garner November 17, 1958 Lubbock, Texas, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin (BA, JD) |
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| Spouse | Karolyne Hu Cheng Garner |
Bryan Andrew Garner (born November 17, 1958) is an American legal scholar and lexicographer who has been the editor of Black’s Law Dictionary since 1999. He has written more than two dozen books about English usage and style, such as Garner's Modern English Usage for a general audience and others for legal professionals. Garner also wrote two books with Justice Antonin Scalia: Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges (2008) and Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012).
Garner is the founder and chair of the board for the American Friends of Dr. Johnson's House, a nonprofit organization supporting the house museum in London that was the former home of Samuel Johnson, the author of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language.