# My Brief History

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- Authors: [Stephen W. Hawking](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-hawking)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-09-12
- Genres: Popular science

## Description

His clarity, wit and determination are evident, his understand and good humour moving' New Scientist My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking’s improbable journey, from his post-war 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 black hole; and the young husband and father struggling to gain a foothold in the world of academia. Writing with characteristic humility and humour, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of motor neurone disease aged twenty-one. Tracing his development as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onwards through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece A Brief History of Time – one 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 Hawking’s personal cosmos. 'Read it for the personal nuggets . . . but above all, it's worth reading for its message of hope' Mail on Sunday

## Editions

### My Brief History

- Publisher: bantam
- ISBN: 978-08-5750-263-6
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2018-03-22
- Language: en_GB

### My Brief History

- Publisher: transworld_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4816-991-7
- Published: 2013-09-12
- Language: en_GB

### My Brief History

- Publisher: transworld_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 2 h 15 min
- Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
- ISBN: 978-14-4817-105-7
- Published: 2013-09-12
- Language: en_GB

### My Brief History

- Publisher: bantam
- ISBN: 978-03-4553-528-3
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2013-09-10
- Language: en_US