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Professor Nasar, who grew up in Germany and Turkey, received her B.A. in literature from Antioch College (1970) and her M.A. in economics from New York University (1976). She was awarded honorary doctorates from De Paul University (2005) and Niagara University (2011).
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. Nasar is Knight Professor Emerita at Columbia University's School of Journalism.
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- National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, A Beautiful Mind (1998)
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Larry Nassar. Lawrence Gerard Nassar (born August 16, 1963) [4] is a former American family medicine physician. For 18 years, he was the team doctor of the United States women's national gymnastics team, where he used his position to exploit and sexually assault hundreds of young athletes.
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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, New York Times Sunday Book Review, Fast Company, London Telegraph, and numerous other publications.
Sylvia Nasar is the author of A Beautiful Mind which inspired the academy award winning movie and was translated into 30 languages. She was an economics correspondent for the New York Times and is the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University.
Sep 21, 2011 · With her training in economics and affinity for the story hidden in plain sight, she embarked on a history cum biography of 19th- and 20th-century thinkers whose interests and talents helped create what ultimately became modern economics. Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, was published Sept. 15 by Simon and Schuster, to strong reviews.
Aug 23, 2011 · NASAR: It came straight out of the Book of Revelation, which was a bit of a revelation for me, and came to me because I spent some time at a research institute with [Princeton professor of religion and author] Elaine Pagels, who was writing a book about the Book of Revelation. I found that Marx really got all his economics, and the bones of his ...
