After his Marshall Scholarship, Keefe returned to the U.S. in international relations from Cambridge University and an M.Sc. He won a Marshall Scholarship in 1999, through which he received an M.Phil. Keefe grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, attended Milton Academy, and received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1999. He is the author of five books- Chatter, The Snakehead, Say Nothing, Empire of Pain, and Rogues-and has written extensively for many publications, including The New Yorker, Slate, and The New York Times Magazine.
The appearance of his byline in The New Yorker is always an event, and collected here for the first time readers can see his work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.Patrick Radden Keefe (born 1976) is an American writer and investigative journalist. Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black market arms merchant, and profiles a passionate death penalty attorney who represents the “worst of the worst,” among other bravura works of literary journalism. As Keefe says in his preface “They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.” Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging work on the many ways people behave badly.
“Fast-paced.Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller." - The Washington Post "An excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing." -NPR
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