Patrick Radden Keefe

Biography

Patrick Radden Keefe is an American writer and investigative journalist, author of six books including "Chatter", "The Snakehead", and "Empire of Pain", and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Born in 1976 to a Massachusetts politician father and a University of Massachusetts Boston professor mother, Keefe grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from Columbia University, Cambridge University, and the London School of Economics.