Becoming Nicole (Nutt)

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1956-57
• Where—N/A
• Education—B.A., Smith College; M.A., M.I.T. and Columbia University
• Awards—Pulitzer Prize
• Currently—lives in Washington, DC


Amy Ellis Nutt won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her Newark Star Ledger feature series “The Wreck of the Lady Mary,” about the 2009 sinking of a fishing boat off the New Jersey coast. Currently, she is a health and science writer at the Washington Post.

She is also the author of three books: Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family (2015), Shadows Bright as Glass: The Remarkable Story of One Man's Journey from Brain Trauma to Artistic Triumph (2011), and the co-author with Frances E. Jensen, M.D. of the New York Times bestseller The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults (2015).

Nutt was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, and an instructor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in Washington, D.C. (Adapted from the publisher.)