Bestselling Author, Screenwriter, and Voice of Recovery.

From duPont-Columbia Award recipient to his work on a two-time Academy Award-winning film, Ritchie Farrell has built one of America’s most singular writing careers, entirely off the currency of lived truth. A WGA screenwriter, bestselling author, and HBO filmmaker, he fought his way into Hollywood’s development rooms, not with connections but with undeniable authenticity. His journey is not a metaphor; it is a documented fact. He co-directed the landmark HBO film America Undercover: High on Crack Street and helped shape The Fighter into an Academy Award winner. His memoir, What’s Left of Us, was called “a rush of blood to the head and heart” by New York Times bestselling author Andre Dubus. His bestseller, A Criminal and an Irishman, celebrated its 20th Anniversary Edition in March of 2026 and changed the U.S. penal code. Farrell doesn’t write about addiction, survival, and redemption. He is those things. As legendary agent and producer, Harry Ufland said, “Farrell spent almost two decades in hell, survived, and no one tells a story like someone who lived it.”