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National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. A Beautiful Mind (1998) Signature. 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.
Sylvia Nasar was born on August 17, 1947 in Rosenheim, Germany. She is a writer, known for A Beautiful Mind (2001), 1st Look (2011) and American Experience (1987).
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She co-directed the M.A. program in business 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 ...
Sylvia Nasar was born in Bavaria in 1947 to a German mother and Uzbek father. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1951 and lived in New York and Washington, D.C. before moving to Ankara, Turkey in 1960.
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. 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).