- She was recently named the Knight Chair in Business Journalism at Columbia University.
1998 - She described the life of John Forbes Nash in A Beautiful Mind, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
2001 - The book was adapted for the screen.
2006 - On the 28th of August, issue of The New Yorker she co-wrote Manifold Destiny.
- The article contains the only media interview with Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincaré conjecture and subsequently rejected the Fields Medal.