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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.
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- National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, A Beautiful Mind (1998)
About the Author. 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. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker ...
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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, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Fast Company, London Telegraph and numerous other publications. She ...
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 book A Beautiful Mind, published in 1998, is an unauthorized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. Written by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Colombia University, USA, the book generally receives very positive reviews and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography in 1998.
Sylvia Nasar is the first James S. and John L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University, where she co-directs the MA program in business journalism. Nasar was raised in Germany and Turkey, studied literature at Antioch College (BA, 1970), economics at New York University (MA, 1976), and has been awarded honorary doctorates ...
At 35, Nasar became a journalist. Since 1983, she has been a writer at Fortune, a columnist at U.S. News & World Report and, until 2000, a reporter at the New York Times where she covered economics. She and her husband, Darryl McLeod, also an economist, have three children, Clara, Lily and Jack and live in Tarrytown, New York.
