Patrick Radden Keefe

b. 1976

1 standalone book

Patrick Radden Keefe is an American journalist and award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, as well as The Snakehead and Chatter. He began contributing to The New Yorker in 2006 and has written on topics including the chef Anthony Bourdain, the hunt for Chapo Guzman, the mass shooter Amy Bishop, and the Sackler family's role in the opioid crisis. He has received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and was a finalist for the same award in 2015 and 2016. Say Nothing won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2019. Keefe grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and attended Columbia University. He holds master's degrees from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, as well as a JD from Yale Law School. His work has also appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and Slate. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and other institutions.

Born

1976