num_pages: 126
description: Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now for the first time perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution. My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawkings improbable journey from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Lavishly illustrated with rarely seen photographs this concise witty and candid account introduces readers to a Hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books: the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him Einstein; the jokester who once placed a bet with a colleague over the existence of a particular black hole; and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of physics and cosmology. Writing with characteristic humility and humor Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age twenty-one. Tracing his development as a thinker he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece A Brief History of Timeone of the iconic books of the twentieth century. Clear-eyed intimate and wise My Brief History opens a window for the rest of us into Hawkings personal cosmos.
language: English
title: My Brief History (Deckle Edge) Hardcover
publisher: Bantam