Amy Ellis Nutt
Journalist and science writer
Amy Ellis Nutt is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. She co-wrote The Teenage Brain.
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American Born in Staten Island, United States
About Amy Ellis Nutt
Amy Ellis Nutt won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her Star-Ledger reporting on the 2009 sinking of the fishing vessel Lady Mary. She has worked as a health and science writer at The Washington Post, and earlier as a writer and reporter at Sports Illustrated. She co-wrote The Teenage Brain, a New York Times bestseller. Nutt has also written Shadows Bright as Glass and Becoming Nicole. She studied at Smith College and holds master's degrees in philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in journalism from Columbia University. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2004-2005 and has taught at several universities, including Columbia and Princeton.