Sylvia Nasar — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography for *A Beautiful Mind* (1998).
John S. and James L. Knight Professor Emerita at Columbia University's School of Journalism (since 2001).
Author of *Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius* (2011), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Served as an economics correspondent for The New York Times from 1991 to 1999.
Conducted research for four years with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief.
Holds an M.A. in Economics from New York University and a B.A. in Literature from Antioch College.

Biography

Sylvia Nasar is an American journalist and author, currently serving as the John S. and James L. Knight Professor Emerita at Columbia University's School of Journalism since 2001.

She is widely recognized for her biographical work, *A Beautiful Mind* (1998), which chronicles the life of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. This book earned her the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.