Benjamin Busch

Benjamin B. Busch
Benjamin B. Busch
Born	1968 (age 55–56); Operation Iraqi Freedom * Presidential Unit Citation; Iraq Campaign Medal

Benjamin B. Busch is an American

The Wire.^[1]

Biography

Benjamin Busch was born in December 1968 in

Generation Kill.^[3] His first film as a writer/director, "Sympathetic Details", was released in February 2008. His latest release, "Bright", was featured at the 2011 Traverse City Film Festival. In March 2022, Busch appeared in a CNN report from Ukraine entitled "American veterans train Ukrainian volunteers in combat."

Photography

Busch took photographs of his experiences in Iraq during his two tours of duty,[4] which formed the basis for his exhibits of photographs, "The Art in War" (2003) and "Occupation" (2005). "Abstract Matter", his final exhibit of images from Iraq, was released in 2008.

Personal

He is the son of author and novelist Frederick Busch^[4] and grew up in upstate New York.^[5]

Memoir

In March 2012, Busch followed in his father's literary footsteps, publishing a memoir primarily about his wartime experiences, winning early critical acclaim. A review in the New York Journal of Books stated: "No other writer has moved me as much as Benjamin Busch has in writing about war. No other writer has created such a moment of grace . . . Dust to Dust is a work of extraordinary merit. I’ve found no better book of any genre, by any author, so far this year, and likely will not in the months ahead."^[5]