Description
Book SynopsisPatrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at
The New Yorker and the author of
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction),
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (soon to be streaming on Disney+), as well as two previous critically-acclaimed books,
The Snakehead, and
Chatter. He is the writer and host of the eight-part podcast
Wind of Change on the origins of the Scorpions' power ballad, which
The Guardian named the #1 podcast of 2020. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He grew up in Boston and now lives in New York.
