Stephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable figures of our time – a Cambridge genius who has earned international

celebrity as a brilliant theoretical physicist and has become an inspiration and revelation to those who have witnessed his courageous triumph over disability.   

This is Hawking’s life story by Kitty Ferguson, who has had special help from Hawking himself and his close associates and who has a gift for translating the language of theoretical physics for non-scientists.

Published with text illustrations and with photographs that cover Hawking’s life from his infancy to the present, STEPHEN HAWKING is written with the clarity and simplicity for which all Kitty Ferguson’s books have been praised. The result is a captivating account of an extraordinary life and the work of a splendid mind.