A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Nasar said that after she complained about the misspent funds, "intimidated and harassed" her by telling her that the Knight Foundation "was dissatisfied with her performance as Knight chair because Knight objected to her work on books." The New York Times reported, "In her suit, Ms. In March 2013, Nasar filed a lawsuit accusing the university of misdirecting $4.5 million in funds over the last decade from the same Knight endowment which pays her salary. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University. News & World Report in 1990, and was an economic correspondent for the New York Times from 1991 to 1999. She joined Fortune magazine as a staff writer in 1983, became a columnist for U.S. For four years, she did research with Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief. ![]() ![]() She graduated with a BA in literature from Antioch College in 1970 and earned a Master's degree in economics at New York University in 1976. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1951, then moved to Ankara, Turkey, in 1960. Nasar was born in Rosenheim, Germany, to a Bavarian mother and an Uzbek father, Rusi Nasar, who later joined the CIA as an intelligence officer. Nasar currently serves as Knight Professor Emerita at Columbia University's School of Journalism. 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. Sylvia Nasar (born 17 August 1947) is an Uzbek German-born American journalist. ![]() National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography ![]()
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