title: Yesterdays: Memoirs from the Gray Hawk Writers
author: Gray Hawk Writers
description: The 24 authors in this anthology are members, present and past, of the Gray Hawk Memoir Writers, an interest group of the University of Iowa Retirees Association. The writers come from different places and backgrounds. They have experienced different lives and careers, and have developed different writing styles.
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  Copyright © 2013 by Stephen W. Hawking
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House
  Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House
  Company, New York.
  
  
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  Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Bantam Press, part of
  Transworld Publishers, a member of The Random House Group, London.
  
  
  Portions of this work originally appeared in different form as part of
  lectures given by the author throughout the years.
  
  
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