Lucy Hawking

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Lucy Hawking (2008)

Lucy Hawking (born November 2, 1969 ) is an English journalist and author. She is the daughter of physicist Stephen Hawking and author Jane Wilde Hawking .

Life

Hawking grew up in Cambridge with her two brothers . As a child, she spent several years in Pasadena , California. As an adult, she assumed great responsibility towards and looked after her father, who had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Lucy Hawking studied French and Russian at the University of Oxford ; she spent several months in Russia in 1992. After graduation, she began studying journalism at the City, University of London . During her studies, she decided to devote herself to writing.

After graduating, she worked as a journalist for New York magazine and the Daily Mail , The Daily Telegraph , The Times , Evening Standard and The Guardian, and as a radio journalist.

She published her first two novels in 2004 ( Jaded ) and 2005 ( Run for Your Life ). Then she wrote children's books. In 2007, The Secret Key to the Universe was released , the adventure story of the boy George, who slips through a computer-generated portal and flies around the solar system . She wrote the book with her father and the support of his former student Christophe Galfard. It has been translated into 38 languages ​​and published in 43 countries. The second children's book, The Incredible Journey into the Universe , was published two years later. The book series continued with George and the Big Bang (2011) and George and the Unbreakable Code (2014).

Lucy Hawking was married to Alex Mackenzie Smith from 1998 to 2004. She has a son, in which autism was diagnosed, after which she began to work for people with autism.

Awards

Stephen Hawking and Lucy Hawking, NASA 2008.

In April 2008, on NASA's fiftieth birthday, she participated in a series of lectures on children, science, and education. Motivated by her experiences on reading tours with her work The Secret Keys , her lectures served to motivate children for science from an early age.

Works

In German translation:

  • Fix and all. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2005 ISBN 978-3-596-16454-7 (translated by Claudia Wuttke, original title Jaded ).
  • The secret key to the universe. With Stephen Hawking and Christophe Galford. cbj, Munich 2007 ISBN 978-3-570-13284-5 (translated by Irene Rumler, original title George's Secret Key to the Universe ).
  • Back to the big bang. The great conspiracy. With Stephen Hawking. cbj Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-8371-0892-7 (translated by Irene Rumler, original title George and the Big Bang ).

Web links

Commons : Lucy Hawking  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kristine Larsen: Stephen Hawking. A biography . Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Conn. 2005, ISBN 0-313-32392-5 , pp. XV (English, books.google.com ).
  2. ↑ Stephen Hawking. In: NNDB. nndb.com, accessed April 15, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Lucy Hawking. fischerverlage.de, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on April 15, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Elizabeth Grice: 'Dad's important, but we matter, too' . In: The Daily Telegraph . April 13, 2004 (English, co.uk ).
  5. ↑ Jonathan Sale: Passed / Failed. An education in the life of Lucy Hawking, science writer . In: The Independent . April 30, 2009 ( co.uk ).
  6. ↑ Lucy Hawking. In: The Guardian . August 8, 2015, accessed April 15, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Shadowland. In: The Age . April 21, 2004, accessed April 15, 2017 .
  8. ↑ George And The Unbreakable Code .
  9. ↑ Emine Saner: Lucy Hawking's fears . In: Evening Standard . April 14, 2004 ( co.uk ).
  10. ↑ NASA's Lecture Series - Professor Stephen Hawking. nasa.gov, April 2008, accessed April 15, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Linda Murray: Lucy Hawking . ( scottishbooktrust.com [PDF]).
  12. ^ Lucy Hawking, Origins Project Writer-in-Residence. In: The Origins Project. December 5, 2010, accessed April 15, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Perimeter Institute Announces brainstem: Your Future is Now Festival Schedule. February 8, 2013, accessed April 15, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hawking, Lucy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd November 1969