17 August 1947
Sylvia Nasar is an Uzbek German-born American journalist. 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. [*--Wikipedia*](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Nasar) *Photo Attribution:* Knight Foundation, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
