Lucy Hawking
Lucy Hawking
Catherine Lucy Hawking, FRSA is an English journalist and novelist. She is the daughter of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and writer Jane Wilde Hawking. She lives in London. She collaborates with her father on projects such as books designed to explain complex science to young readers through the background of adventure travels...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth2 November 1970
Lucy Hawking quotes about
I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.
amazing continue fabulous great lucy switch
I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would like to continue writing novels, and hopefully, at some point, I would like to make the switch from being 'Stephen Hawking's daughter' to 'novelist Lucy Hawking,' and that will be a fabulous day.
whether wonder
I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.
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I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.
school class nicknames
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.
children rooms my-family
I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.
children wanted knows
As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.
order priorities important
I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.