Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Baillie Gifford Prize | 2021 | Winner |
| National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction | 2021 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Patrick Radden Keefe chronicles the Sackler family's rise from immigrant poverty to one of the wealthiest dynasties in America, with a focus on their role in creating and marketing OxyContin through Purdue Pharma. A meticulous indictment of a family that profited from the opioid epidemic, shortlisted for the NBCC Award.
About the Author
Patrick Radden Keefe is an American author and staff writer at The New Yorker, widely considered one of the foremost practitioners of narrative nonfiction in the United States. His books combine deep investigative journalism with novelistic storytelling, typically focusing on crime, conflict, and the dark corners of American institutions. His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2019) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, among many other honors. Read more →
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