Patrick Radden Keefe is longtime staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of five books, including the New York Times bestsellers Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, which received the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, which received the Baillie Gifford Prize and was a finalist for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award; and Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks.
Keefe is a former New America fellow, whose investigative journalism has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. He is the creator and host of the podcast Wind of Change, which investigates the strange convergence of heavy metal music and Cold War espionage and was named the #1 podcast of 2020 by the Guardian and Entertainment Weekly. He has also worked as a producer of film and television, executive producing the Netflix series Painkiller, and Say Nothing, based on his book, which will be released in 2024 on FX. He lives with his family in New York.
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