A brief history of Stephen Hawking`s A Brief History of Time
(The Guardian Books News)

The late physicist´s editor, Peter Guzzardi, recalls his first meetings with Hawking and how his book became a bestsellero Stephen Hawking dies aged 76I first encountered Stephen Hawking on the cover of the New York Times magazine. Inside, its pages told a story we all know today, but at the time it was a revelation: a Cambridge astrophysicist sought to solve the great mysteries of the universe, while he himself was trapped in a wheelchair by a progressive neurogenerative disease. I remember being struck by writer Timothy Ferris´s description of Professor´s Hawking´s shoes, their soles pristine, having never touched the ground. I tucked the article in my knapsack, and a few days later I finished reading it on my way to lunch with a literary agent. Related: Stephen Hawking: modern cosmology`s brightest star dies aged 76 Continue reading...