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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).
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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. For four years, she did research with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief.
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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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Writer: A Beautiful Mind. Sylvia Nasar was born on 17 August 1947 in Rosenheim, Germany. She is a writer, known for A Beautiful Mind (2001), 1st Look (2011) and American Experience (1987).
The inspiration for a major motion picture, Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love. Membership Advantages. Media Reviews. Reader Reviews. Membership Advantages. Read-Alikes. Genres & Themes. Read-Alikes.
