Memoirs, Scientists, Astrophysics & Space Science, Cosmology 

My brief history is an autobiography by stephen hawkingmy brief history narrates stephen hawkings journey through life it includes memories from his childhood in post-war london right until his years of worldwide praise and being a celebrity this book is generously furnished with rarely seen photographs this witty and concise account shows the readers a hawking rarely known in his previous books he was the inquisitive schoolboy whose classmates nicknamed him einstein, the fun-loving man who placed a bet with a colleague over the possibility of a black hole and the young father and husband struggling to gain a grip in the academic worldhawking discusses his unconventional childhood, his diagnosis with motor neurone disease when he was a 21 year old phd student, his ground-breaking work on quantum cosmology and his two marriages and the controversial circumstances surrounding their failingmy brief history is the first that he wrote completely on his own, by means of a device that translates the movement of the cheek muscle under his eye, making it his most personal book to datemy brief history by stephen hawking was published by random house uk in 2013 this book is available in hardcover key features: my brief history received several good reviews from critics from leading journals in usa a documentary-style film titled hawking was made which closely mirrored the book - from Amzon