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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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In an excerpt from her new book, Sylvia Nasar recounts Nash’s poignant battle with his own mind, his miraculous recovery in the late 1980s, and the theories that led to his amazing triumph in...
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).
- August 17, 1947
Sylvia Nasar. Professor Nasar was the first James S. and John L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism. She co-directed the M.A. program in business journalism.
Written by journalism professor Sylvia Nasar, this book is an unauthorized biography of the award-winning mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. In 1994, he was one of three recipients who shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work with game theory.
