Robert Marshall Blount Fulford OC (February 13, 1932 – October 15, 2024) was a Canadian journalist, magazine editor, essayist, and public intellectual.

[3] He grew up in The Beaches neighbourhood in Toronto and was a childhood friend of Glenn Gould, who was his next door neighbour.

[3] He attended Malvern Collegiate Institute and struggled academically due to undiagnosed Attention Deficit Disorder.

[5] Rachel Fulford is a psychotherapist and former film and television producer who was director of original production at Showcase.

[4] Through his father's connections, he began working for the Globe and Mail as a part-time copy boy while in high school.

"[3] His son-in-law, Stephen Marche observed "the one thing that did not interest him in this world was sports – and yet he wrote fluently and enthusiastically.

He then wrote weekly columns for the Financial Times of Canada (1988–1992), The Globe and Mail (1992–1999) and the National Post (1999–2019).

In 1999, he delivered that year's Massey Lecture, "The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture" in a series of five programs aired on Ideas.

[3] Fulford worked as the co-host with Richard Gwyn of Realities, a long-form interview show on TVOntario (1982–1989) and as a regular panelist on CBC Radio's Morningside (1989–1993).

[16] In his 1988 entry for The Canadian Encyclopedia, Douglas Fetherling described Fulford's politics as being on "the more conservative end of the liberal spectrum".