Sylvia Nasar

Sylvia Nasar
Nasar in 2005
Nasar in 2005
Born (1947-08-17) 17 August 1947 (age 77)
Rosenheim, Allied-occupied Germany
OccupationJournalist
Biographer
Professor of journalism
Notable worksA Beautiful Mind
Notable awardsNational Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
A Beautiful Mind (1998)
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Sylvia Nasar (born 17 August 1947) is an American journalist. She is best known for her biographical book 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.[1]

  1. ^ "Columbia Journalism School". journalism.columbia.edu/.