Lucy Hawking (Stephen Hawking’s Daughter)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Lucy Hawking

• Does Lucy Hawking smoke?: Not Known

• Does Lucy Hawking drink alcohol?: Yes

• She was born in England to author Jane Wilde Hawkin and scientist Stephen Hawking.

• Lucy was raised in Cambridge. 

• As a child, she spent a few years in Pasadena, California.

• Along with her mother Jane, Lucy played a significant role in tending to her father’s deteriorating health due to ALS. 

• Lucy never saw her dad walk.

• When her dad’s speech started to go, she’d translate his words to her friends. 

• Lucy was always worried that her dad would die soon and would often cry about it.

• Besides studying French and Russian at the University of Oxford, she also spent time to focus on her Russian studies in Moscow.

• While studying International Journalism at City, University of London, she realized that she would not make a career out of journalism.

• Before publishing novels, she spent some time working as a journalist for numerous publications including The Guardian and The Telegraph.

• Lucy Hawking’s first 2 books were- ‘Jaded’ and ‘Run For Your Life.’    

• Soon, she started focusing on children’s novels that based on science. 

• Lucy Hawking and Stephen Hawking wrote a book together in 2007, ‘George’s Secret Key to the Universe.’ 

• When Stephen Hawking ended his marriage to Lucy’s mother in 1995, and later married his nurse, Elaine Mason, Lucy went into depression. Stories were also there that Elaine was abusive.

• In 2004, after Lucy and her husband divorced, she underwent a treatment for depression and alcohol at a rehabilitation clinic in Arizona. The same year, she gave birth to an autistic son named William.

• On March 14, 2018, at the age of 76, Stephen Hawking died at his home in Cambridge. Lucy said his father’s sense of humor and scientific discoveries had helped him live so long.

• Lucy shared her life-story at TED Talks.