Matt Richtel is a reporter at the New York Times. He received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles about distracted driving that he expanded into his first
nonfiction book, A Deadly Wandering, a New York Times bestseller. His second nonfiction book, An Elegant Defense, on the human immune system, was a national bestseller and
chosen by Bill Gates for his annual Summer Reading List. His 2022 New York Times series on teen mental health, “The Inner Pandemic,” won first place in public health reporting
from the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism and drew national US media attention. Richtel has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air, CBS This Morning, PBS NewsHour,
and other major US media outlets. He lives in Colorado.
