Paul Bennett (author, typographer)

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Paul A. Bennett - (1897 - 1965) Author, typographer.

Paul Bennett was Director of Typography for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in the USA for 30 years before his retirement in 1962. He wrote several papers, monographs, and keepsakes for The Typophiles, and a highly-regarded book, Books and Printing (1951).

He died in a plane crash along with Dale Coleman and Jack Stockdale on Berch Knob Mountain in Dixon County Virginia on August 25th, 1965. A stone marker sits 200 feet above the location of the crash.

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