Hawking is a super best-selling author. His work "A Brief History of Time" won the best seller list of Sunday Daily for four consecutive years. In addition, he helped to make several films and TV programs, and made a lot of money from his speeches.

A Brief History of Time is a popular science book written by Hawking in 1988, which tells the origin and fate of the universe. It is one of the best-selling popular science works, which has been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than100000 copies.

Hawking is one of the great men with international reputation in this century, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of Cambridge University, and the most important contemporary general relativity and cosmologist.