In court actions, the Sackler family has agreed to pay as much as US$4.5 billion into an opioid settlement fund, a controversial arrangement reportedly challenged by the Justice Department because it indemnifies the Sacklers. The show began its run on Hulu in October. In addition to Keefe’s book, their story is the subject of television producer Danny Strong’s new series Dopesick with Michael Keaton, Rosario Dawson, and Peter Sarsgaard. The book examines the Sacklers’ relentless drive to promote Ox圜ontin and their company Purdue Pharma, profoundly criticized for its role in the American opioid epidemic.

Image: Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, Belinda Lawleyīy Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | Holgate: ‘Journalism as Outstanding Literature’ As Publishing Perspectives readers know, the United Kingdom’s Baillie Gifford Prize, directed by literary agent Toby Mundy, is one of the quite lucrative awards for nonfiction alongside the Cundill History Prize the newly renamed British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding (formerly the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize) and the German Nonfiction Prize.Īnd tonight at the Science Museum in South Kensington, the £50,000 purse (US$67,139) for London’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction has been handed to the American writer Patrick Radden Keefe for Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, published by Pan Macmillan’s Picador in the UK and PRH imprint Doubleday in the US.

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe