A Beautiful Mind (book)
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A Beautiful Mind
Author	Sylvia Nasar
Original title	A beautiful mind: a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
Country	United States of America
Language	English
Genre(s)	Biography
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication date	1998
Media type	Paper Back
Pages	459
ISBN	ISBN 0-68481-906-6

A Beautiful Mind is an unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash by Sylvia Nasar, a New York Times economics correspondent. It inspired the 2001 film by the same name.

Starting with his childhood, the book covers Nash's years at Princeton and MIT, his work for the RAND Corporation, his family and his struggle with schizophrenia. It ends with Nash being awarded the "Nobel Prize in Economics" in 1994. The book is a detailed description of many aspects of Nash's life, and a close examination of his personality and motivations, and gives an interesting perspective on the stresses placed on personal and professional relationships by severe mental illness.

The book won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for biography, and was shortlisted for the Rhône-Poulenc Prize in 1999¹. The book also appeared on the New York Times' bestseller list for biography. It is particularly notable for describing Nash's genius as well as his struggle with the mental illness.

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