Author: Sylvia Nasar
Born: 17 August 1947
Bio: Sylvia Nasar is an Uzbek German-born American journalist. She is best known for her biography of John Forbes Nash Jr., *A Beautiful Mind*, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. [*--Wikipedia*](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Nasar)

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