Russ Banham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Russ Banham

American writer and reporter

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1954

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Russ Banham (born September 20, 1954) is an American author and reporter formerly with The Journal of Commerce and later a freelance journalist writing for The Wall Street Journal, Inc., Forbes, The Economist, Euromoney, Financial Times, Chief Executive and several other business publications and trade magazines. Banham is the author of 27 books, including The Ford Century, an international bestseller translated into 13 languages; Higher, a best-selling history of aerospace giant Boeing and the U.S.
aviation industry; The Fight for Fairfax, a post-Cold War political and economic history of Northern Virginia as it became an Edge City to Washington, D.C., and the forthcoming Problem Solving, a co-authored history of Harvard Business School (with HBS Professor Emeritus Howard Stevenson). Banham also is a former actor known for co-starring with Bill Murray in the movie “Meatballs” and a playwright and professional theatre director.