Sylvia Nasar is an Uzbek-German American journalist, best known for her 1998 biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., A Beautiful Mind, and her 2011 history of economic genius, Grand Pursuit. She graduated with a B.A. in literature from Antioch College in 1970 and earned a master's degree in economics at New York University in 1976. She joined Fortune magazine as a staff writer in 1983, and was an economic correspondent for The New York Times from 1991 to 1999. She held the Knight chair in business journalism at Columbia University from 2001 to 2016. Currently Nasar is working on another history, FellowCountrymen, about Americans and Britons who collaborated with the Soviets in the 1930s and 1940s. A Beautiful Mind was nominated for a Pulitzer and inspired Ron Howard's Academy Award-winning film.
Sylvia Nasar
Studios
Irving Fine
Sylvia Nasar worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…