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My Brief Historyis just that - a very short autobiography of Stephen Hawking's remarkable life from his childhood in postwar London to his ground-breaking work in cosmology and quantum physics.

It is a succinct, engaging story that begins in 1942.

Stephen Hawking was born in 1942 in Oxford, England. Hawking had three siblings, Mary, Philippa and an adopted brother, Edward, who passed away in early adulthood.

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Because the school he attended as a child did not believe in formally instructing children to read, Stephen did not learn to read until he was eight years old. 

When he was a young boy, Stephen loved model trains but did not have a good working one until after the war when his father returned from a visit to America with a new train.

Stephen was interested in electric trains and with his friend, John McClenahan and later on with another school friend, Roger Ferneyhough, he built different working models of trains, boats, planes and games. Hawking writes that he had "an u