Matt Richtel

Matt Richtel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and the author of several books of narrative nonfiction, including An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System and Inspired: Understanding Creativity. He won the Pulitzer for national reporting for a series on distracted driving.

His reporting has covered the science of the immune system, adolescent mental health and the ways technology reshapes attention and health, often built around the stories of individual patients followed over long stretches of illness.