This incident shaped her perspective on using methods of entertainment such as children literature and science fictions to engage the new generation on post-truth politics and scientific understanding. Lucy Hawking has two brothers named Robert Hawking and Timothy Hawking. She spent her childhood in Pasadena, California, and was raised in Cambridge after her parents settled there. Lucy Hawking got married to Alex Mackenzie Smith in 1998. Diagnosed with autism, he has been an inspiration to her in her support for people on the autistic spectrum. Jaded is a thriller novel about a character named William Gadget-London banker whose four friends come together to help him after he declares his life was at risk. But Lucy shared some beautiful personal stories about her father’s tenacity and determination. As a child, she spent a few years in Pasadena, California. Similarly, in 2010 she was appointed as writer-in-residence to work on its 2011 Origins Project by Arizona State University. In 2004, after Lucy and her husband divorced, she underwent a treatment for depression and alcohol at a rehabilitation clinic in Arizona. [18], In March 2017, Hawking was invited to speak at the Emirates Airline Festival in Dubai. Nonetheless, with the support from her family and friends, and after getting treatment at a clinic in Arizona, she was able to return to normal life. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2020 Celebrity Biography & Gossip News. Lucy is active on Instagram with more than 900 followers. They are blessed with a son named William from their marriage born in 1999. More than 90,000 students have completed the program, which helped it bag a nomination for the ‘Sir Arthur Clarke Award’ for Excellence in Space Education by the British Interplanetary Society in the year 2017. Stephen Hawking spent the vast majority of his life suffering a terrible disease, with countless ‘experts’ constantly telling him “no”. Besides these, she has also taught French and Russian language at the University of Oxford. The same year, she gave birth to an autistic son named William. With this aim, she began career in journalism thinking that journalism can be a good practice towards her terminal goal. As a young adult she was a caretaker for her father as his health declined due to motor neuron disease. Stephen Hawking was a great scientist and extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. William was later diagnosed with autism, has inspired her to support people on the autism spectrum. 2004). Her first two novels were Jaded (2004) and Run for Your Life (2005) (also published as The Accidental Marathon). In her visit to NASA on its 50th birth anniversary, she highlighted the importance of engaging children in science at an early age in her speech.