Kitty Ferguson

Kitty Ferguson is an American biographer, science author, lecturer, and former professional musician.

She has been best known world wide for thirty years as Stephen Hawking’s biographer. Her ten books also include a double biography of astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, books on the history of thought and philosophy (The Music of Pythagoras) and others about cosmology, the history of science, and the interface between science and religious belief (The Fire in the Equations). Her most recent book, Lost Science: Tales of Forgotten Genius, was published by Sterling in 2017. An updated edition of her acclaimed biography, Stephen Hawking, was published by Transworld in 2019.

Bibliography
  • Stephen Hawking: A Life Well Lived (Transworld, 2019)
  • Lost Science: Tales of Forgotten Genius (Sterling, 2017)
  • Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind (Palgrave, 2012)
  • Pythagoras (Icon Books, Reprint 2011, first published by Walker Publishing Company, Inc., 2008)
  • The Music of Pythagoras: How an Ancient Brotherhood Cracked the Code of the Universe and Lit the Path From Antiquity to Outer Space (Walker, 2008)
  • Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens (Walker, 2004)
  • The Nobleman and His Housedog. Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler: the Strange Partnership that Revolutionised Science (Review (Publisher), 2002)
  • Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time (Walker, 2000)
  • Prisons of Light – Black Holes (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
  • The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God (Templeton Found Pr., New edition 2004, first published by Bantam Press, 1994)
  • Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of the Universe (F. Watts, 1991)
  • Black Holes in Spacetime (F. Watts, 1991)

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