Sylvia Nasar, journalist and author, achieved international acclaim for A Beautiful Mind (1994), a biography of mathematician and game theorist John Forbes Nash, who received the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. A Pulitzer finalist, and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the book was made into a 2001 film that received four Oscars including Best Picture. Nasar's newest book is A Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius (2011), a sweeping history of the development of modern economics.
Sylvia Nasar grew up in Germany and Turkey, the daughter of a German mother and Uzbek father who served as the CIA station chief in Ankara. A New York Times economics correspondent from 1991 to 1999, she currently holds the Knight Chair in Business Journalism at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Business Week and the New York Times Book Review, among other publications.
