A Beautiful Mind (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Sylvia Nasar
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1928-1994
- Setting: West Virginia; Princeton, New Jersey; Santa Monica, California; Massachusetts; Paris
- Principal Characters: John Nash, Eleanor Stier, Alicia Larde Nash, John Charles Nash
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Love or romance, Science or scientists, Abandoned children, Mental illness, Illegitimacy, Learning or scholarship, Mathematics or mathematicians, Mind and body
- Locales: Paris, France, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Santa Monica, CA, Princeton, NJ
John Forbes Nash, Jr., was born on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, West Virginia. His father, John Nash, Sr., was an electrical engineer who left Texas to work for the Appalachian Power Company in Bluefield, where he met Margaret Virginia Martin, whom he married in 1924. Nothing in the birth or upbringing of John Nash, Jr., offers any clue to his later illness. John and Virginia Nash were educated and loving parents to both him and his sister, Martha, born in 1930. John was a healthy, handsome child but quiet and introverted. His mother taught him to read by the age of four and apparently...
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