Sylvia Nasar (born 1947 in Bavaria) is an American journalist and writer. 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ...

She describes the life of John Forbes Nash in A Beautiful Mind (Simon & Schuster), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is currently writing a book entitled Grand Pursuit. John Forbes Nash Jr. ... A Beautiful Mind is a book and film about the Nobel Prize (Economics) winning mathematician John Nash and his experiences of schizophrenia. ... The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an American association of approximately seven hundred book reviewers. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ...

A former economics reporter for the New York Times, she was recently named the Knight Chair in Business Journalism at Columbia University. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ...

External links

• Columbia University Faculty Page
• Interview with Sylvia Nasar
• Biography by Royce Carlton Inc.