Author

Books by Sylvia Nasar

Sylvia Nasar is an American journalist and economist who served as economics correspondent for The New York Times before joining the faculty at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. A Beautiful Mind, her first book, was published in 1998 and became a bestseller. She spent four years researching it, conducting hundreds of interviews with Nash's colleagues, former patients, and family members. The book was adapted into a 2001 film directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Nasar subsequently published Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius.