Jim Ottaviani is a New York Times best-selling author who began writing graphic novels about scientists in 1997. His books include “The Imitation Game,” a biography of Alan Turing; “Primates,” about Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas; and “Feynman,” a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. His newest graphic novel is “Hawking” (First Second), a biography of Stephen Hawking, one of the most important scientists of our time.