Sylvia Nasar | |
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Born | Rosenheim, Allied-occupied Germany | 17 August 1947
Occupation | Journalist Biographer Professor of journalism |
Notable works | A Beautiful Mind |
Notable awards | National 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]