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Her husband is Fordham University economist Darryl McLeod. [3] A Beautiful Mind. In 1998, Nasar published A Beautiful Mind, a biography of Nobel Prize -winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. The book describes many aspects of Nash's life and personality and examines the stresses of severe mental illness.
Nasar lives in Tarrytown, New York, with her husband, the Fordham University economist Darryl McLeod. She has three adult children: Clara, Lily, and Jack. Early life. Sylvia Nasar was born in Rosenheim, Germany on 17 August 1947.
Trained as an economist, Professor Nasar was a New York Times economics correspondent (1991-1999), staff writer at Fortune (1983-1989) and columnist at U.S. News & World Report (1990). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Newsweek, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Fast Company, London Telegraph and numerous other publications. She ...
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.
- Sylvia Nasar
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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 States in 1951, then moved to Ankara, Turkey in 1960.
The 1999 book (biography) A Beautiful Mind. 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.
