Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family (29 page)

A
MY
E
LLIS
N
UTT
won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her feature series “The Wreck of the
Lady Mary,
” about the 2009 sinking of a fishing boat off the New Jersey coast. She is a health and science writer at
The Washington Post,
the author of
Shadows Bright as Glass,
and the coauthor of the
New York Times
bestseller
The Teenage Brain.
She was a Nieman Fellow in journalism at Harvard University and Ferris Professor in Residence at Princeton, and was for a number of years an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in Washington, D.C.

@amyellisnutt