Bruce Ramsey

Bruce Ramsey was born in Seattle and grew up near the shore of Puget Sound in Edmonds. He studied business at the University of Washington and journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and began his career as a business news reporter. He worked at the Journal-American in Bellevue, Wash., Marple's Business Newsletter in Seattle, and for Asiaweek magazine in Hong Kong. For most of his 37-year career in journalism, he was a business reporter and columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer or an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle Times.

For 20 years he wrote for the libertarian and classical liberal magazine Liberty, and edited several collections for the Caxton Press of the 20th century libertarian journalist Garet Garrett. In 2008, Caxton published his biography of Garrett, "Unsanctioned Voice: Garet Garrett, Journalist of the Old Right."

Ramsey retired from the Seattle Times in 2013 and began researching "The Panic of 1893: The Untold Story of Washington State's First Depression." The book was published in June 2018 by the Caxton Press.

Ramsey lives in Seattle with his wife, Anne. They have one son, Morgan, a software engineer.