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Sylvia Nasar
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Sylvia Nasar

Sylvia Nasar is the author of the bestselling A Beautiful Mind, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. She is the John S. and James. L Knight Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

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Grand Pursuit will be released on July 31, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Jul 31, 2012
Grand Pursuit is now available in Trade Paperback
Jul 31, 2012
Grand Pursuit will be released on September 13, 2011 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Sep 13, 2011
Grand Pursuit is now available in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Sep 13, 2011
Grand Pursuit will be released on September 13, 2011 in eBook
Sep 13, 2011
Grand Pursuit is now available in eBook
Sep 13, 2011
Grand Pursuit will be released on September 13, 2011 in Compact Disk
Sep 13, 2011
Grand Pursuit is now available in Compact Disk
Sep 13, 2011
Grand Pursuit will be released on September 13, 2011 in eAudio
Sep 13, 2011
Grand Pursuit is now available in eAudio
Sep 13, 2011
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A Beautiful Mind will be released on July 12, 2011 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Jul 12, 2011
A Beautiful Mind is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
Jul 12, 2011

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Columbia University, April 12, 2013
...American Reader. This fall (2013) he will be a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Sylvia Nasar is the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at the Journalism School. Trained as an economist, she is a former...
Women's Agenda, April 12, 2013
...big ideas. Also flying in for the festival are life and love columnist and writer Cheryl Strayed, and Sylvia Nasar, the author of A Beautiful Mind and other works. Kate Mosse, Gillian Mears and Molly Ringwald are also on the program. World of Women...
Yahoo!, April 11, 2013
...of extending a heartfelt congratulations. In a sign of admirable equanimity, the school helped spread the news that Sylvia Nasar, the author of "A Beautiful Mind" and a professor of business journalism at the school, had been named a Guggenheim Fellow in...
The Week Magazine, March 24, 2013
...schoolteacher Olive, judges others. Sound unremarkable? Olive Kitteridge won the Pulitzer for fiction. Ba-duh-bum. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (Simon & Schuster, $18). The setting is the mind of Nobel laureate John Forbes Nash Jr. Nash was cursed...
The Tri-City News, March 22, 2013
...explore new authors and share reading ideas. Coffee Mug Club members are currently reading A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar. This is a dramatic and moving biography of a mathematical genius whose brilliant career was cut short by schizophrenia, and who,...
Deccan Chronicle, February 15, 2013
...screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. Inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar, the film starred Russell Crowe, along with Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany and Christopher Plummer in...
The Australian, February 8, 2013
...some brain food in the form of Grand Pursuit, a narrative of the history of economic thought by Sylvia Nasar, the author of A Beautiful Mind; Tuesday's offering in our Australian IT section, What Would Google Do?, gives an insight into the secrets of the...
Chicago Daily Herald, January 15, 2013
...$1 million that she says shes owed. According to a summons filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Sylvia Nasar says Columbia owes her $923,000 dating back to September 1998 from an endowment grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The...
West Australian, January 15, 2013
...million that she says she is owed. According to a summons filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Sylvia Nasar says Columbia owes her $923,000 dating back to September 1998 from an endowment grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The...
The West Online, January 15, 2013
...million that she says she is owed. According to a summons filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Sylvia Nasar says Columbia owes her $923,000 dating back to September 1998 from an endowment grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The...
West Australian, January 15, 2013
...million that she says she is owed. According to a summons filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Sylvia Nasar says Columbia owes her $923,000 dating back to September 1998 from an endowment grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The...
Mail Online UK, January 14, 2013
...a suit against the school over almost $1million. According to a summons filed in Manhattan's Supreme Court, Sylvia Nasar says Columbia owes her $923,000 dating back to September 1998 from an endowment grant. The summons was filed on Jan. 7. 'The nature...
Mail Online UK, January 14, 2013
...a suit against the school over almost $1million. According to a summons filed in Manhattan's Supreme Court, Sylvia Nasar says Columbia owes her $923,000 dating back to September 1998 from an endowment grant. The summons was filed on Jan. 7. 'The nature...
Mail Online UK, January 14, 2013
...a suit against the school over almost $1million. According to a summons filed in Manhattan's Supreme Court, Sylvia Nasar says Columbia owes her $923,000 dating back to September 1998 from an endowment grant. The summons was filed on Jan. 7. 'The nature...