Lucy Hawking
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Lucy Hawking presenting her father Stephen Hawking at the lecture for NASA's 50th anniversary
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Lucy Hawking 2 November 1970 England |
| Alma mater | Oxford University |
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Jane Wilde Hawking Stephen Hawking |
Lucy Hawking (born 2 November 1970) is an English journalist, novelist, educator, and philanthropist. She is the daughter of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and writer Jane Wilde Hawking. She lives in London, and is widely known as a children's novelist and science educator, though her career has spanned across a variety of areas.
Lucy Hawking was born in England to scientist Stephen Hawking and author Jane Wilde Hawking. She has two brothers, Robert and Timothy Hawking, and was raised in Cambridge after a few years spent in Pasadena, California as a child. As a young adult, she played a significant role in tending to her father's deteriorating health due to his diagnosis of motor neurone disease.
Hawking studied French and Russian at the University of Oxford. During university, she spent time in Moscow to focus on her Russian studies; after completing her degree, she went on to study international journalism at City, University of London. There, she realized that she did not want to make a career out of journalism, though found it to be good writing practice as well as a practical way to get into the writing industry.
After pursuing an education in journalism, Hawking spent a bit of time working as a journalist before publishing novels. She has written for New York magazine, the Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Times, the London Evening Standard, and The Guardian. She also worked as a radio journalist.
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