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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.
- Journalist, Biographer, Professor of Journalism
- A Beautiful Mind
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, A Beautiful Mind (1998)
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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Sylvia Nasar. Sylvia Nasar ( Rosenheim , Baviera , 1947) es una periodista y escritora que ejerce en Estados Unidos . Su padre, uzbeko , fue oficial de la CIA y se asentó en los Estados Unidos ; su madre es alemana.
Genre. 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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Mini Bio (1) Sylvia Nasar was born on August 17, 1947 in Rosenheim, Germany. She is known for A Beautiful Mind (2001), 1st Look (2011) and American Experience (1987). Trivia (2) Holds the James Knight professorship of business journalism at Columbia University.
Sylvia Nasar. 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 author of A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar is a journalist who is working for the New York Times in the 1990s when she first hears about John Nash, a Princeton professor who suffered from schizophrenia. Intrigued by Nash’s story—one of redemption and recovery—Nasar decides to write a biography of the famous mathematician, meticulously ...