
A Beautiful Mind
#37 of 3,809 books · #19 in Biography & Memoir
Won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (1998) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (1998). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.
The biography of a mathematical genius who suffered from schizophrenia, miraculously recovered, and then won a Nobel Prize.
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- ISBN-13
- 9781451628425
- Genre
- Topics
- Mathematical geniusSchizophrenia and mental illnessNobel Prize
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyWonMajor(1998)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyWonMajor(1998)
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyShortlistedMajor(1999)
Other awarded books from Sylvia Nasar
- Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius (2011)1 win · 8 score
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