Ronan Farrow is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, where his investigative reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, the National Magazine Award, and the George Polk Award, among other honors. He previously worked as an anchor and investigative reporter at MSNBC and NBC News, with his print commentary and reporting appearing in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. Before his career in journalism, he served as a State Department official in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence. Farrow has been named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People and one of GQ's Men of the Year. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and a member of the New York Bar. He recently completed a Ph.D. in political science at Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He lives in New York.
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"Absorbing...The behavior documented in Catch and Kill is obviously
and profoundly distressing. ... But there are some hopeful threads,
too."--Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
"Catch and Kill is the latest reminder of the extent to which men
in power in America can protect one another, and the consequences
when that protection succeeds."--Anna North, Vox
"An engrossing, emotive, often drily funny binge... a humdinger of
a story... a nuanced appreciation of how women are smeared and
discredited...combines righteous anger, gossip and comedy."--The
Times (U.K.)
"Darkly funny and poignant...a winning account of how it feels to
be at the centre of the biggest story in the world. It is also, of
course, a breathtakingly dogged piece of reporting, in the face of
extraordinary opposition."--EmmaBrockes, The Guardian (U.K.)
"Explosive."--KateAurthur, Variety
"Meticulous and devastating...part All the President's Men, part
spy thriller."--Rasha Madkour, Associated Press
"Must read: Catch and Kill, by Ronan Farrow. How #sexualabuse
stories got suppressed, and how deep-diving, fact-gathering
reporting blew the lid off, despite threats, intimidation, and
cronymongering at the top. Chilling!"--Margaret Atwood
"Read this book...Farrow's greatest success was to listen, believe
and act, even at his own peril."--MariaL. La Ganga, Los Angeles
Times
"Reads like a thriller...The reveal in Catch and Kill is not that
there are corrupt people; it's that corrupt people are in control
of our media, politics, and entertainment and that, in fact, many
of them remain in control."--RebeccaTraister, The Cut
"Riveting and often shocking . . . Catch and Kill has gone off like
a hand grenade in the world of New York media . . .
compelling"--Sunday Times (U.K.)
"The book no one can stop talking about."--Bustle
"The year's best spy thriller is stranger - and more horrifying -
than fiction...He weaves a breathless narrative as compelling as it
is disturbing...bracingly exposes the rot that's persisted across
elite American institutions for decades."--DavidCanfield,
Entertainment Weekly
"Catch and Killis an important, frightening book...it's also a
propulsive, cinematic page-turner "--Erin Keane, Salon
"Catch and Kill reads like a thriller, prime to be adapted for the
screen."--Sophie McBain, New Statesman
"Catch and Kill is a rip-roaring account of the years spent chasing
the Weinstein story and its spin-offs. It's a deep dive into the
world of US media, Hollywood pay-outs, Donald Trump's eccentric
ways, spies and spineless editors. And is it gripping...dripping
with jaw-dropping revelations and moments of astonishing
pathos."--Harriet Alexander, The Telegraph (U.K)
"Catch and Kill is exhaustively reported...and compulsively
readable, with nearly every page revealing a provocative detail
about a household name in media or entertainment."--EJDickson,
Rolling Stone
"Catch and Kill is literally jaw-dropping-a shocking, meticulous
record of the vast machinery with which moral bankruptcy protects
itself, and of the arsenal of weapons available to colossally
powerful men whose careers depend on silencing those seeking
accountability and truth...This book reveals damningly widespread
corruption, complacency, and cowardice, and against it, the blazing
courage of the women who spoke out-it's a blueprint of a hideous
world, and a foundational building block of a new
one."--JiaTolentino, author of Trick Mirror
"Catch and Kill is proof that Ronan Farrow is the best kind of
reporter: thorough, honest, and compassionate...it digs deep and
Farrow is never afraid to tell the truth no matter where the sparks
may fly."--James Patterson
"Catch and Kill weaves together months of reporting to reveal
explosive allegations that play out like a terrifying spy
thriller."--KateStorey, Esquire
"Catch and Kill" is, in many ways, horrifyingly grim - a nightmare
confirmation of the worst in human nature and the entangled upper
echelons of the media and political worlds. But, as Farrow has
noted in interviews, it also admits some rays of hope."--Julia M.
Klein, Forward
"A measured but damning portrait of that failure at NBC, which he
ties to a pattern of harassment and abuse within the
network."--Annalisa Quinn, NPR.org
"At the heart of every great noir is a conspiracy of evil that
imbues the initial crime uncovered by the hero with a weightier
resonance than was immediately obvious. So it goes with Catch and
Kill."--Elizabeth Bruenig, TheWashington Post
"Befitting a Farrow story, Catch and Kill is chocka�block with
scoops and revelations."--PaulFarhi, The Washington Post
"Combines the intricate reporting of All The President's Men with
Kafkaesque atmosphere to reveal troubling collusion between the
media and the powerful interests they cover. This is a crackerjack
journalistic thriller."--Publishers Weekly
"Historically this book is going to have lasting importance as a
vividly detailed, in-the-trenches account of the epic effort it
took to try to bring down just a piece of the wall of patriarchy
that has kept women exploited and oppressed in the media industry
and American life forever."--David Zurawik, The Baltimore Sun
"One can only marvel at [Farrow's] courage, his resilience and
moral fiber. It's one thing to tilt at windmills, it's another to
tilt at a human power saw."--Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood
Reporter
"Part memoir, part spy thriller, the book is an engrossing account
of the dark arts employed by the powerful to suppress their
stockpiled bad behavior as well as the cover-up culture that
pervades executive suites-many of them at Farrow's former employer,
NBC News."--MarisaGuthrie, The Hollywood Reporter
"Ronan is the kind of journalist that activists like myself rely
on...His care and compassion for the stories survivors' entrusted
him with shows in how diligently he investigated each claim. After
all of the work he has done to carry their stories forward, I am
excited for the world to read this book."--Tarana Burke
"Ronan Farrow has entered the pantheon of great investigative
reporters. With meticulous research and endless revelations, he
exposes a system of abuses and cover ups-a system that for too long
has been protected. This is an invaluable book." --David Grann, #1
New York Times bestselling author of Killersof the Flower Moon
"The book is full of plot and drama...This is a story about a
ruling class of men who protect one another - and about the courage
of women who speak up."--Abraham Gutman, The Philadelphia
Inquirer
"The connections between presidents, media moguls, and spies
described in Catch and Kill are stranger than fiction. As a novel,
it would be a page-turner. As a reported piece of nonfiction, it's
terrifying."--Eliana Dockterman, Time
"This is an urgent, significant book."--Kirkus Reviews, starred
"We've been reading about sex scandals beginning with Harvey
Weinstein, but only Ronan Farrow, who reported them, tells us how
women's voices were discredited and suppressed for so long. Catch
and Kill reads like a great detective novel, and could lead to a
safer and more just future."--GloriaSteinem
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