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Sylvia Nasar

1947 - Today

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Sylvia Nasar (born 17 August 1947) is an American journalist. She is best known for her biographical book of John Forbes Nash Jr., A Beautiful Mind, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Nasar is Knight Professor Emerita at Columbia University's School of Journalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sylvia Nasar is the 3,456th most popular writer (up from 3,660th in 2019), the 3,579th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,719th in 2019) and the 215th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sylvia Nasar ranks 3,456 out of 7,302. Before her are Theodore Bibliander, Arctinus of Miletus, Franco Sacchetti, James Aldridge, Marion Chesney, and Lawrence Block. After her are Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Coelius Sedulius, Eysteinn Erlendsson, Dmitry Gulia, Tōson Shimazaki, and Olympia Fulvia Morata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Sylvia Nasar ranks 355. Before her are Leszek Balcerowicz, Peer Steinbrück, Jaroslav Pollák, Gregg Allman, Hans-Jürgen Kreische, and Olavo de Carvalho. After her are Aziz Dweik, Luis Ángel González Macchi, Valery Afanassiev, Michael S. Hart, Albert Brooks, and Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Sylvia Nasar ranks 3,581 out of 7,253. Before her are Albert Niemann (1834), Dieter Hoeneß (1953), Hermann von Stein (1854), Anton Diffring (1916), H.P. Baxxter (1964), and Hans-Jürgen Kreische (1947). After her are Edzard I, Count of East Frisia (1462), August Immanuel Bekker (1785), Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Dorothea Susanne of Simmern (1544), and Heinrich Albert (1604).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Sylvia Nasar ranks 215. Before her are Theodor Körner (1791), Sophie von La Roche (1730), Justus Jonas (1493), Johann Ernst Glück (1652), Johann Most (1846), and Paul Fleming (1609). After her are Glückel of Hameln (1646), Oskar Maria Graf (1894), Herman Grimm (1828), Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680), Elia Levita (1469), and Brigitte Hamann (1940).

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