Matt Richtel is an American journalist and author who has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He has won multiple awards for his work, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the 2010 Society of Professional Journalists' Public Service Award, and the 2011 Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for Fiction. He is the author of two novels, Devil's Plaything and A Deadly Wandering, which explore the effects of technology on society.