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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.
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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The author: Sylvia Nasar. Sylvia Nasar is a German-born professor and writer who live and work in the United States. 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.
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...
A Beautiful Mind: a Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994: Author: Sylvia Nasar: Language: English: Published by: Simon & Shuster, in 1998: Pages: 459
The story of John Nash's life — brilliant mathematician, troubled schizophrenic, and finally winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics — might have had a far harsher arc if not for his wife,...
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Jun 12, 1998 · 21 books280 followers. 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. She graduated from Antioch College in 1970, and earned a masters' degree in economics at New York University in 1976.
