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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.
Mathematician John Nash, 86, and his wife Alicia, 82, whose lives were the subject of the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, were killed Saturday in a taxi crash in New Jersey, police told BuzzFeed News. Fred Prouser / Reuters. John Nash and his wife Alicia at the Oscars in 2002.
Nash and his wife, Alicia, died Saturday in a car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike. On Monday afternoon, I talked with Nasar about their unexpected death, but also Nash's life, his role in...
Jan 24, 2023 · Since 2001, she has been a John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University. Nasar lives in Tarrytown, New York, with her husband, the Fordham University economist Darryl McLeod. She has three adult children: Clara, Lily, and Jack.
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Nov 15, 2018 · Written by journalism professor Sylvia Nasar, this book is an unauthorized biography of the award-winning mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. In 1994, he was one of three recipients who shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work with game theory.
Sylvia Nasar. Professor Nasar was the first James S. and John L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism. She co-directed the M.A. program in business journalism.
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Jun 12, 1998 · A Beautiful Mind (1998) is a biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia University. An unauthorized work, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in biography.
