Patrick Radden Keefe
Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer, has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2006. He is the author of “Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty,” which received the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland,” which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Orwell Prize for political writing, and the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations. His two previous books are “The Snakehead,” which was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize, and “Chatter.”
Keefe’s story “A Loaded Gun,” about the troubled history of the mass shooter Amy Bishop, received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014; he was also a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016. Many of his New Yorker pieces are collected in “Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks,” which will be published in June, 2022.
He is also the creator and host of the 2020 podcast “Wind of Change,” about the strange convergence of Cold War espionage and nineteen-eighties heavy metal. Originally from Boston, he lives with his family in New York.