About the Author
Sylvia Nasar was born in Germany but moved with her family to the United States in 1951, followed by Turkey in 1960. After earning her BA in literature from Antioch College, Nasar went on to study economics at New York University and earned her Master’s degree in 1976. Throughout her career as a journalist, she’s written for Fortune, U.S. News & World Report, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. She was formerly the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University and is known best for her writing on economics and mathematics. A Beautiful Mind, published in 1998, won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. Her second book, Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, was published in 2011. She currently resides in New York and is married to a fellow economist, Darryl McLeod. The pair have three adult children.
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Sylvia Nasar, an economics journalist working for the New York Times, first hears about the story of John Nash, an acclaimed mathematician whose career was derailed by schizophrenia, from a Princet...
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