Patrick Radden Keefe

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

Patrick Radden Keefe, a master investigative journalist and storyteller, is the celebrated author of six books. His international bestseller, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. The New York Times named it one of the 20 Best Books of the 21st Century, and it was adapted into a hit FX limited series. His New York Times bestseller, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, received the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize and inspired the hit Netflix series Painkiller, the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary The Crime of the Century, and the Oscar-nominated film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.

Keefe’s latest work of propulsive nonfiction, London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth, tells the gripping story of Zac Brettler, a London teenager who, unbeknownst to his parents, developed a secret alter ego, posing as the son of a Russian oligarch. “Keefe has crafted another masterwork,” raves Kirkus. “[He] might be our sharpest chronicler of the intersection of criminal opportunism and institutional fecklessness… This is powerful reporting, a potential classic.”

An award-winning staff writer at the New Yorker, Keefe received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014. He earned master’s degrees from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics as well as a law degree from Yale. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim, the New America Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.