A Beautiful Mind

Sylvia Nasar (born 1947) is an American author and journalist best known for her biography A Beautiful Mind (1998) about mathematician John Nash, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and inspired an Oscar-winning film. Born in Germany to a Bavarian mother and Uzbek father, her family immigrated to the US in 1951; she later studied literature and economics, worked as an economics correspondent for The New York Times, and became Knight Professor Emerita of Business Journalism at Columbia University. Her other notable work, Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius (2011), won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.