Economist, journalist and professor Sylvia Nasar is the author of A Beautiful Mind, the bestseller that inspired the Academy Award-winning film starring Russell Crowe. While working as an economics reporter for The New York Times, Nasar discovered the remarkable story of John Nash, the Princeton mathematical genius who suffered from schizophrenia for three decades before recovering and winning a Nobel Prize in economics. Her biography, which won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and was a Pulitzer finalist, helped put a human face on a devastating mental illness.
A writer at Fortune and columnist at U.S. News & World Report before she joined The Times, Nasar also has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, the Russell Sage Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. When she was appointed to the first Knight professorship at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Dean Tom Goldstein said, “Her informed perspective, shaped by her multi-faceted professional experiences, will be invaluable as we explore the issues facing business journalism in the era of acquisitions and consolidations, emerging technology and the 24-hour news cycles.”
Nasar, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times and other leading publications, teaches a graduate seminar in economics reporting that focuses on globalization, growth, living standards and business cycles. She is working on Grand Pursuit, a book about 20th century economic thinkers.
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