WRITER

Sylvia Nasar

1947 - Today

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Sylvia Nasar (born 17 August 1947) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvia Nasar has received more than 391,924 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Sylvia Nasar is the 3,661st most popular writer (up from 3,876th in 2019), the 3,719th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,660th in 2019) and the 222nd most popular German Writer.

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  • 390k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sylvia Nasar ranks 3,661 out of 7,302. Before her are Ilya Ilf, Johan Herman Wessel, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Guillaume Musso, Richard Yates, and Tevfik Fikret. After her are Marta Kauffman, Olympia Fulvia Morata, Qul Ghali, Antero de Quental, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, and Nagarjun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Sylvia Nasar ranks 351. Before her are Omar Larrosa, George Lam, Sammy Hagar, Alain Bashung, Nobuo Kawakami, and Tiit Vähi. After her are Daishiro Yoshimura, Kim Campbell, Franco Trappoli, Svetlana Bojković, Rajko Grlić, and Dominique Baratelli.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Sylvia Nasar ranks 3,719 out of 7,253. Before her are Anni Albers (1899), Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1583), Marc Forster (1969), Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880), Franz von Paula Schrank (1747), and Jean-Marc Barr (1960). After her are Adolf Merckle (1934), Rudi Glöckner (1929), Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909), Irm Hermann (1942), Hanni Wenzel (1956), and Erich Pommer (1889).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Sylvia Nasar ranks 222. Before her are Justus Jonas (1493), Theodor Körner (1791), Leonhard Frank (1882), Gunter d'Alquen (1910), Günter Eich (1907), and Johann Heinrich Voss (1751). After her are Robert Jungk (1913), Glückel of Hameln (1646), Bruno Apitz (1900), Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807), Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810), and Walter Kempowski (1929).

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