Amy Ellis Nutt

Amy Ellis Nutt writes for THE STAR-LEDGER. In 2009 she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her article on Jon Sarkin and in 2011 she won the Pulitzer Prize for an article she wrote about the mysterious sinking of a commercial fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean. She studied neuroscience at Harvard and philosophy at M.I.T. In 2004 she won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Pinnacle of Excellence Award.