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Patrick Radden Keefe (born 1976) is an American non-fiction writer.

Keefe grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts and attended Columbia University. His first book, Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping (Random House, 2005), was published while he was a student at Yale Law School. His second book, The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (Doubleday, 2009), grew out of a 2006 article for The New Yorker magazine about the Golden Venture incident and the Chinese human smuggler   Cheng Chui Ping ("Sister Ping").

In 2006, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his research on illicit networks. He has also been a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

Keefe is a frequent contributor to Slate and The New Yorker. He has also written for The New York Review of Books and the Op-Ed Page of the New York Times. He is a fellow at the Century Foundation, a public policy think tank, where his research focuses on foreign policy, national security, and the rule of law. His writing often focuses on legal issues, but he also writes about movies, television, and books for Slate.