Patrick Radden Keefe
Author and Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the bestselling author of five books, the most recent of which is Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks – a collection of 12 of his New Yorker stories, covering a dozen years. His book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty received the Baillie Gifford Prize and was a finalist for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year. His previous title Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
He is also the creator and host of Wind of Change, an investigative podcast about the strange convergence of Cold War espionage and heavy metal music, which The Guardian and Entertainment Weekly named the number one podcast of 2020.
