My Brief History
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My Brief History is a memoir published in 2013 by the English physicist Stephen Hawking. The book recounts Hawking's journey from his post-war London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity.[1]
Reception
My Brief History has received modest praise from critics. Ian Sample of The Guardian wrote, "Hawking's memoir, My Brief History, is a skip across the surface of the Cambridge cosmologist's life, from his quirky upbringing in London and St Albans to his latest work on the beginning of time and the evolution of the universe. The details are sketched, but the brevity makes for a bold picture. Hawking's intellectual activity soars as his illness takes hold and eventually puts an intolerable burden on his marriages."[2] Chuck Leddy of The Boston Globe similarly observed, "It's clear, though, that Hawking is more comfortable looking up at the universe than into himself, more concerned with detailing the evolution of a career than the twists and turns of a life, though he does reveal some interesting details about his beginnings as a scientist. In clean, direct prose, Hawking leads us from his birth in Oxford in 1942 to the present."[3]
References
- ^ Brown, Eryn (8 September 2013). "Stephen Hawking memoir "My Brief History" out Tuesday (PHOTOS)". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 24 November 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
- ^ Sample, Ian (13 September 2013). "My Brief History: a memoir by Stephen Hawking – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ Leddy, Chuck (10 September 2013). "'My Brief History' by Stephen Hawking". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
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- Hawking radiation
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- A Brief History of Time (1991)
- Hawking (2004)
- Hawking (2013)
- The Theory of Everything (2014)
- God, the Universe and Everything Else (1988)
- Stephen Hawking's Universe (1997 documentary)
- Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe (2008 documentary)
- Genius of Britain (2010 series)
- Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010 series)
- Brave New World with Stephen Hawking (2011 series)
- Genius by Stephen Hawking (2016 series)
- Jane Wilde Hawking (first wife)
- Lucy Hawking (daughter)
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