# Patrick Radden Keefe **Patrick Radden Keefe** (born 1976) is an American investigative journalist and *New Yorker* staff writer. He wrote [[Empire of Pain]] (2021), the main narrative history of the [[Sackler Family]] and [[Purdue Pharma]], which grew out of his 2017 *New Yorker* article on the family. His earlier book *Say Nothing* (2018), on the Troubles in Northern Ireland, won the National Book Critics Circle Award.