Amy Ellis Nutt
Amy Ellis Nutt won the Pulitzer Prize for her feature series “The Wreck of the Lady Mary,” about the sinking of a fishing boat off the New Jersey coast. She is the author of Shadows Bright as Glass and the New York Times bestseller Becoming Nicole, and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Teenage Brain. She has been a reporter at Sports Illustrated, a staff writer at The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., a health and science writer at The Washington Post, a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, the Lucille Geier Lakes Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, and an instructor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.