Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
1991-1999 Economics Reporter, New York Times
1990 Economics Columnist, US News & World Report
1983-1989 Staff Writer, Fortune
1982 Economist, Control Data Corporation
1981 Economist, Scientists’ Institute for Public Information
1977-1980 Economist, Institute for Economic Analysis, NYU, Wassily Leontief, Director
Visiting Positions
2007 Research Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation, NY, NY
2003-2004 Director’s Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
Fall, 2000 Visiting Fellow, Churchill and Kings Colleges, University of Cambridge
1999-2000 Visiting Researcher, Industrial Relations Division, Princeton University
1995-1996 Director’s Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
Education
M.A., 1976 Economics, New York University
B.A., 1970 Literature, Antioch College
1967-1968 Literature, University of Munich, Germany
Languages: German
Books:
Grand Pursuit, Simon and Schuster, expected publication date: 2008
Editor, Best Science Stories of 2007, Harper Collins, 2008
Editor (with Harold Kuhn), The Essential John Nash, Princeton University Press, 2001
A Beautiful Mind, Simon & Schuster, 1998, Touchstone, 1999, 2001, 30 foreign editions
Recent Articles:
“Manifold Destiny” with David Gruber, New Yorker, August, 2006
“Cultivating Creativity,” KOS, (Italian mathematics and culture journal) July, 2005.
“Forward,” Victor Pieribone and David F. Gruber, Aglow in the Dark: The Revolutionary Science of Luminescence, Harvard University Press, 2005.
“Economics at the Center of the Mathematical Universe,” in A Century of Books, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
“Forward,” Jessica Rosenberg and Samuel Rosenberg, Community Health: Challenges for the 21st Century, New York: Routledge, 2006.
“Compulsive Creativity,” in Eytan Sheshinski, ed., Entrepreneurship, Innovation and the Growth Mechanism of the Free Market Economies: Essays in Honor of William Baumol, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Media:
A Brilliant Madness, American Experience, WGBH , 2001 (Creative Consultant)
Auf das Fremden Meeres des Denkens, Deutsches Fernsehen, Arte, 2003
Language Arts at Work, Discovery Channel Education Initiative, Mary Stephens, producer, September 2005
Professional:
Dow Jones News Service Award Panel, 2005-
Jury, SABEW Large Circulation Newspaper Award, 2007
Biography Panel, Los Angeles Times Book Award Panel, 2005-2006
Tony Lucas Prize Panel, 2004
Biography Series Advisory Panel, Alfred Sloan Foundation, 2004-
Advisory Committee, Teen Screen, Columbia University School of Medicine, 2003-
Executive Council, Authors Guild, 2002-2004
Creative Consultant, The American Experience, WGBH, 2001
Advisory Board, Kings College Archive, 2000-2001
National Book Award Non-Fiction Panel, 1999
Women’s Economic Round Table Panel, 2000
Overseas Press Club Journalism Awards Panel,1994-1999
Honors:
Rebecca Rice Alumni Award, Antioch College, 2008
Fellowship, Russell Sage Foundation, 2007
DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellowship, 2005-2006
Visiting Artist, MacDowell Colony, January, 2006
Visiting Artist, Yaddo, 2005
Honorary Doctorate, De Paul University, 2005
NARSAD Award (with Akiva Goldsman), 2002
Scripter Award (with Akiva Goldsman), 2002
CVMHA Award, 2002
Schorr Family Award, 2002
American Mathematics Society Communications Award, 2000
New Jersey Council for the Humanities Book Award, 1999
Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1999
Finalist, Helen Bernstein Journalism Award, 1999
Finalist, Rhone Poulenc Prize for Science Writing, 1999
Salon Magazine Book Award, 1999
New York Public Library Book Award, 1999
Kenneth Johnson Memorial Research Library Award, 1999
National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Biography, 1998
New York Times Publisher’s Awards, 1992 and 1994
Invited Lectures:
St. Benedict’s College and St. John’s University, St. Cloud, Michigan
Science Café, Columbia University
(with John Morgan, chair, Columbia U. Dept. of Mathematics)
The Antioch Review 65th Anniversary keynote, National Arts Club
Mathematics Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
School of International Communications, University of Montevideo
Gray Matters Foundation and Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
Russell Sage Foundation
Women on Women in Science, New York University
Westchester Community College
Rockland County NAMI
Circle of Life Psychiatric Hospital, Detroit, Mi.
Turkistan-American Association, Dover, NJ
Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Goettingen, Germany
Commencement Address, Barat College, De Paul University, Lake Forest, Illinois
Town Hall Series, Fargo, North Dakota
“The Innovators” Symposium, Tribeca Film Festival
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring, New York
Aurora Psychiatric Hospital, Aurora, Wisconsin
Gallaudet University Washington, D.C.
Road to Serfdom Symposium, Kings College, Cambridge
New York Public Library
Master’s School Convocation
Department of Economics George Mason University
Economic History Seminar, Harvard University
Social Sciences Seminar, IAS
Friends of the Institute, IAS
History of Economic Thought Society Conference, UC Davis
Department of Economics, University of Quebec at Montreal
Mathematics Museum, Vienna
University of Virginia
Commencement Address, University of Tulsa
Department of Psychiatry, Downstate Medical Center
Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival
Mantua Literary Festival
Century Club, New York
Author’s Guild Biography Panel
University of California at Berkeley Mathematics Symposium
American Institute of Mathematics, Stanford University
New York University School of Film
American Film Institute
University of Rochester
University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
Palm Literary Society, Sarasota, Florida
Larchmont Public Library
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Jacob Burns Film Center with Janet Maslin
McCreight Lecturer, West Virginia Humanities Council
Reuters Forum, Columbia University
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
School of Economics, Birmingham University, England
Centre for History and Economics, Kings College, Cambridge
Proof and the Arts Symposium, New York University Law School
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota
Business Journalism Conference, Wye Plantation, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank
Rosalynn Carter Distinguished Lecture, Emory University
Cosmos Club, Washington D.C.
New Jersey Mental Health Association Keynote
T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM
Yale University, Branford College
Goddard-Riverside Book Fair Author Series
Center for Economic Studies, University of Munich
New York Academy of Sciences
New York State NAMI Convention Keynote Address
Phillips Exeter Academy
Fordham University Distinguished Economics Lecture
Scarsdale Pubic Library Author Series
Goddard-Riverside Book Fair
Virginia Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University Media Series
Princeton University, Department of Economics
Duke University, Department of Mathematics
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