Booklovers Bash Featuring Patrick Radden Keefe

Name: Booklovers Bash Featuring Patrick Radden Keefe
Start: 2024-10-25T17:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-10-25T22:00:00-06:00
Location: Little America Hotel & Resort - Cheyenne

Schedule

Fri Oct 25 2024 at 05:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Little America Hotel & Resort - Cheyenne | Cheyenne, WY

Featuring Patrick Radden Keefe, master of investigative journalism and bestselling author of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.
The Booklovers Bash is Laramie County Library Foundation's annual fundraising gala to benefit Laramie County Library System. Along with the featured author presentation and book signing, the event includes a cocktail reception, dinner, the ever-popular Dessert Dash and more!
About the author:
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the bestselling author of five books, which have been published in 24 languages. Keefe’s international bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland received the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations for the best book on foreign affairs. It was named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune, and one of the ten best nonfiction books of the decade by Entertainment Weekly. In 2024, FX will release a dramatic limited series based on Say Nothing, which Keefe executive produced.
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, a New York Times bestseller, received the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for the best nonfiction book published in the English language, and was shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year. His reporting on the Sacklers inspired the hit Netflix series Painkiller, on which he was an executive producer; the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Crime of the Century, for which he served as a consultant and one of the chief on-camera voices; and the Oscar-nominated film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, in which he appeared on camera.
In 2020, Keefe was the creator and host of the 8-part investigative podcast Wind of Change, about the strange convergence of Cold War espionage and heavy metal music. The series was named the #1 podcast of the year by the Guardian and Entertainment Weekly and became an international hit for Spotify. It received two Webby Awards and three Ambie Awards from the Podcast Academy, including “Best Host,” and generated over 10 million downloads.
Most recently, Keefe released the New York Times bestseller Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks, a collection of twelve of his most celebrated New Yorker stories. In addition to the New Yorker, Patrick Radden Keefe’s work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, Slate, and numerous other publications. He is a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and was twice a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting.