# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sylvia-nasar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:34:18.089Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sylvia-nasar"
name: "Sylvia Nasar"
slug: "sylvia-nasar"
description: "Sylvia Nasar 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."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sylvia_Nasar_-_Flickr_-_Knight_Foundation.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-08-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0621586"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sylvianasar.com/"
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    title: "西尔维亚·娜萨"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Sylvia Nasar"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump