Sylvia Nasar, the author of "A Beautiful Mind" and a Columbia University professor has moved the New York State Supreme Court against the school in nearly a $1 million lawsuit.
Multi-faceted professor-author Sylvia Nasar has alleged that the university owes her about a million. According to Capital New York, in her summons served to the university, she's seeking $923,000 and accusing the school of underpaying her from funds dedicated to her compensation package from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Nasar an economist and journalism professor at Columbia became famous for her literary work," A Beautiful Mind.' She shot to worldwide fame, after her novel was turned into an Academy-Award winning movie.
"The nature of this action and the relief sought is to recover damages for breach of contractual duties owed to plaintiff as a third-party beneficiary, unjust enrichment and conversion, arising out of the diversion of funds accruing for the benefit of plaintiff pursuant to an endowment grant by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation dated Sept. 17, 1998," read the summons filed by Nasar's attorney, Mark Lawless, in New York State Supreme Court, according to Capital.
Both the parties, however, refused to comment on the latest developments.
Nasar was a former economics correspondent for The New York Times and is the John S. and James L. Knight professor of business journalism at Columbia University. Her Pulitzer -nominated book, 'A Beautiful Mind', has been translated into 30 languages.
The book revolves around the life of a Nobel Laureate in Economics, John Nash, the mathematical genius. Nash was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness.
