A Beautiful Mind

sylvia nasar

Biography (John Nash). First printing, full number line. Book fine and clean, inside and out. dust jacket near fine, light edge wear, price clipped.

Genres biographynonfictionpsychologysciencemathematicshistorybiography memoirmental healthmemoirmedia tie in

464 pages, Hardcover

First published June 12,1998

Literary awards

royal society science book prize, pulitzer prize, audie award, national book critics circle award,

Places

princeton new jersey, princeton university new jersey,

This edition

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 1998 by Simon \u0026 Schuster
ISBN: 9780571177943
ASIN: 0571177948
Language: English

About the author

Sylvia Nasar was born to a German mother and Uzbek father. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1951, then moved to Ankara, Turkey in 1960. She graduated from Antioch College in 1970, and earned a masters' degree in economics at New York University in 1976. For four years, she did research with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief. She is currently the Knight Chair in Business Journalism at Columbia University. Her husband is economist Darryl McLeod. They have three children and live in Tarrytown, New York.