SYLVIA NASAR

A Beautiful Mind Revisited:
              Creativity & The Brain

Wednesday, February 11, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Wheelwright Auditorium
Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC
(Books signing to follow in the lobby)

Sylvia Nasar is not only a professor, economist, and journalist, she is also the author of the bestseller, A Beautiful Mind A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1994), published in thirty languages, and which inspired the Award Winning movie starring Russell Crowe. This biography won the National Book Critics’ Award and was a Pulitzer finalist.

Nasar discovered John Nash, a mathematical genius who was diagnosed with schizophrenia for thirty years before convalescing and winning a Nobel Prize in economics, while working as an economics reporter for the New York Times. Nasar has also been a writer at Fortune and a columnist at U.S. News & World Report before she joined The New York Times. Nasar attended Antioch College where she majored in literature.

After working for a number of years, she completed a master’s degree and began the Ph.D. program in economics at New York University. She is working on Grand Pursuit, a book on 20th century economists. She is currently teaching a graduate seminar on economics reporting which centers on globalization, growth, living standards and business cycles. Nasar is the first James S. and John L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University where she co-directs the M.A. program in business journalism.

Dean Tom Goldstein of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism had this to say about Nasar, “Her informed perspective, shaped by her multi-faceted professional experiences, will be invaluable as we explore the issues facing business journalism in the era of acquisitions and consolidations, emerging technology and the 24-hour news cycles.”

One comment from a previous audience of hers:

“The bottom line is that you were a smash! Everyone with whom I've spoken has given you rave reviews.
You had great answers to questions and clearly knew the subject inside and out. Professionals in the
behavioral health field commented that your superior intelligence showed through
("She has IQ points dripping out her ears").”
- University of Arizona

This is a free event, but General Admission tickets are required and are available at the Wheelwright Box Office, 108 Spadoni Park Circle 349-2502.