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Grand Pursuit: A Conversation with Sylvia Nasar - Chicago Humanities Festival

Grand Pursuit—A Conversation with Sylvia Nasar Deborah and S. Cody Engle Program

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  • ABOUT Sylvia Nasar

    Sylvia Nasar is the first James S. and John L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism and co-directs the M.A. program in business journalism. Professor Nasar is the author of the bestselling biography, A Beautiful Mind, which has been published in 30 languages. She grew up in Germany and Turkey, received her B.A. in literature from Antioch College and her M.A. in economics from New York University.

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  • ABOUT Cornelia Grumman

    Cornelia Grumman is the executive director of the First Five Years Fund (FFYF) and oversees the organization's advocacy, communications, and alliance-building strategies. Prior to joining FFYF in January 2008, Grumman served on the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune, where she wrote mainly about education, politics, criminal justice, and other social policy issues. Grumman won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for her series of editorials calling for death penalty reform.

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John Forbes Nash: brilliant, tortured, complex. Sylvia Nasar rendered his story with perspective and grace in A Beautiful Mind, her biography of the mathematical genius stricken with schizophrenia. Now Nasar, a Columbia University journalism professor, turns her formidable writing talent to an important narrative of our time: the making of modern economics. From Charles Dickens’s portraits of poverty in mid-19th-century London to the contributions of Marx, Engels, and Keynes, among many others, Nasar’s Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius reveals how economics rescued humankind, irrevocably altering the lives of past, present, and future generations.

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This program is generously underwritten by Deborah and S. Cody Engle.

The 2011 programs at the UIC Forum are sponsored in part by the Chicago Community Trust.

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