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Sylvia Nasar (born 17 August 1947) is an American journalist. She is best known for her biography of John Forbes Nash Jr., A Beautiful Mind, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Nasar is Knight Professor Emerita at Columbia University's School of Journalism.
Professor Nasar is the author of the bestselling biography, "A Beautiful Mind," which has been published in 30 languages, including Farsi, Turkish, Russian and Hindi, and inspired the Academy Award-winning movie directed by Ron Howard (2001).
Sylvia Nasar lay awake many nights in the mid-1990s worrying whether any anxiety caused by the biography she was writing about the Princeton mathematician John Nash would make him lapse back into ...
A Beautiful Mind (1998) is an unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize -winning economist and mathematician John Nash by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia University . It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in biography.
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For four years, she did research with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief. She is currently the Knight Chair in Business Journalism at Columbia University. Her husband is economist Darryl McLeod. They have three children and live in Tarrytown, New York. Sylvia Nasar was born to a German mother and Uzbek father. Her family immigrated to the United ...
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The biography A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar: Cast: Russell Crowe as John Nash. Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash. Ed Harris as William Parcher. Paul Bettany as Charles Herman. Josh Lucas as Martin Hansen. Adam Goldberg as Richard Sol. Anthony Rapp as Bender. Vivien Cardone as Marcee. Christopher Plummer as Dr. Rosen. Judd Hirsch as Helinger
Jul 12, 2011 · The inspiration for an Academy Award–winning movie, Sylvia Nasar’s now-classic biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over adversity, and the healing power of love.
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