Lucy Hawking

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Lucy Hawking (born 1970) is an English journalist and novelist^[1]. She lives in London^[2].

1 Education and career
2 Marriage and family
3 Health
4 Future work
5 Bibliography
- 5.1 Novels
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Education and career

Hawking read French and Russian at the University of Oxford, and then commenced work as a journalist^[3]. She has worked for New York Magazine and has written for the Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Times of London, and the London Evening Standard^[4]. She has also worked as a radio journalist^[5].

Hawking has written two novels: Jaded (2004), Run for Your Life (2005) (also published as The Accidental Marathon).

Hawking is an administrative staff member of the Autism Research Centre (ARC), which is situated within the School of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry, Section of Developmental Psychiatry, at the University of Cambridge. She is in charge of Friends of the ARC^[6].

[edit] Marriage and family

Hawking married Alex Mackenzie Smith in 1998, the year after the birth of their son, William; the couple have since been reported to be separated^[7]

She is the daughter of theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, and his first wife, Jane (née Wilde). She has two brothers: Robert (born 1967), and Tim, (born 1979)^[8]. Her father possesses the condition termed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is a type of motor neurone disease. Lucy Hawking has spoken publicly of her concern for her father's welfare; she has suggested she believes he has been assaulted by his second wife, Elaine (née Mason), for more than a decade^[9]. Her father's injuries were reported to the police on two occasions, in August 2003 by Lucy herself^[10]. However, the police determined that there was no evidence of "criminal acts".

[edit] Health

Hawking has undergone treatment for alcoholism; she has claimed that her alcoholism was motivated by depression and stress^[11].

[edit] Future work

Hawking is to publish a children's book about theoretical physics, written in conjunction with her father. "It is a story for children, which explains the wonders of the universe," she has said^[12].

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

Jaded (published 26 April, 2004)
Run for Your Life (2005)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

[1] Hawking's nurse reveals why she is not surprised his marriage is over, Daily Mail article, published 20 October 2006.
[2] Dad's important, but we matter too, The Daily Telegraph, 13 April 2004.

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