Patrick Radden Keefe is the author of The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (Knopf-Doubleday, 2009), and Chatter: Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping (Random House, 2005). He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and Slate, and a fellow at The Century Foundation, a progressive policy think tank, where his work focuses on international security and foreign affairs.

Patrick grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts and went to college at Columbia. He received a Masters in International Relations from Cambridge University, a Masters in New Media and Information Systems from the London School of Economics, and a JD from Yale Law School.

The recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he has also been a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award for Best Book on International Affairs. Along with the New Yorker and Slate, his articles and Op-Eds have appeared in the New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Legal Affairs, the Boston Globe, WIRED, the World Policy Journal, and other publications.

He lives in Washington, DC.