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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
  2. 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.

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  4. 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. 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 ...

  5. August 17, 1947. Website. http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentSe... Genre. Biographies & Memoirs, Science. edit data. 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.

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  6. Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiography by South Africa 's first democratically elected President Nelson Mandela, and it was first published in 1994 by Little Brown & Co. [1] [2] The book profiles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years spent in prison.

    • Nelson Mandela
    • 630 pp
    • 1994
    • 1994
  7. 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.

  8. Feb 11, 1990 · Madiba's journey. Known and loved around the world for his commitment to peace, negotiation and reconciliation, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was South Africa's first democratically elected president (1994-1999). Mandela was an anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader, as well as a philanthropist with an abiding love for children.

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