Sylvia Nasar
Sylvia Nasar | |
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Nasar in 2005 | |
| Born | 17 August 1947 Rosenheim, Allied-occupied Germany |
| 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.