Matt Richtel
Journalist and author
Matt Richtel is a journalist at The New York Times who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2010. He has also written novels and nonfiction books.
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American Born 1966 in Los Angeles, United States
About Matt Richtel
Matt Richtel was born in Los Angeles in 1966 and lives in San Francisco. In 2010 he received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, recognizing his New York Times series about distracted driving. He later wrote a Times series called "Your Brain On Computers". He has written novels, including Doomsday Equation and Dead on Arrival, as well as the nonfiction book A Deadly Wandering. The San Francisco Chronicle named A Deadly Wandering one of the best books of 2014. Richtel also co-created the syndicated comic Rudy Park and for a time wrote it under the pen name Theron Heir. BookBits carries his books An Elegant Defense and How We Grow Up.