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Matt Richtel

  • New York Times reporter Matt Richtel received the Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles about distracted driving that he expanded into his first nonfiction book “A Deadly Wandering.” His latest book is “How We Grow Up.”Matt Richtel spent nearly two years reporting a nine part New York Times award winning series on the post pandemic adolescent health crisis called the “Inner Pandemic.” The project left Richtel with more questions than answers. He has responded with a deeply reported new science book entitled “How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence.”