Bruce A. Ramsey (bram411@outlook.com) is a Washington writer and researcher retired from a 37-year career in journalism in Seattle and Hong Kong. 

He was born in Seattle and grew up in Edmonds along Puget Sound. He graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in business and did graduate work in journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He began his career in 1976 as the business and real estate reporter at the Bellevue Journal-American. He was a reporter at Marple’s Business Newsletter and a business reporter and columnist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  In 1989 he moved to Asia for four years as a senior writer at Asiaweek magazine. He returned to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1993, and in 2000 joined the Seattle Times as a columnist and member of the editorial board. 

For his Post-Intelligencer series on the 1982 failure of the Seattle-First National Bank he won the Champion-Tuck Award for Economic Understanding, and in the year of his retirement, 2013, he received the Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial writing.

During his newspaper years, Ramsey edited four volumes of the works of the 20th century financial journalist Garet Garrett and wrote a biography of Garrett, Unsanctioned Voice, all published by the Caxton Press. Upon his retirement he began researching The Panic of 1893. He is now at work on a history of Seattle in the Great Depression.

Ramsey lives in Seattle with his wife, Anne, a former Citibanker. Their son, Morgan, is a software engineer and their daughter-in-law, Helen, is a naturopathic physician.