Apple's Jobs takes bite out of biography
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April 12, 2011, Tuesday
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APPLE CEO Steve Jobs has finally agreed to participate in a book about his life.
Simon & Schuster announced on Sunday that Walter Isaacson's "iSteve: The Book of Jobs" will be published in early 2012.
Isaacson has been working on the long-rumored biography since 2009 and has interviewed Jobs, members of his family, colleagues at Apple and competitors.
Many Jobs biographies have been written, but not with his authorization. He reacted to at least one book with disapproval. In 2005, Apple banished works by John Wiley & Sons from its stores because the publisher had signed up an unauthorized biography, "iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business," by Jeffrey Young and William Simon.
Isaacson is a former top executive at CNN and Time magazine who has written best-sellers about Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.
He is currently the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a "nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute" in Washington, DC.
Jobs, 56, has had numerous health problems and announced in January that he would take his third leave of absence in seven years. During that time, he has survived a rare but curable form of pancreatic cancer and undergone a liver transplant. He appeared at a press conference in early March to unveil the iPad 2.
Simon & Schuster announced on Sunday that Walter Isaacson's "iSteve: The Book of Jobs" will be published in early 2012.
Isaacson has been working on the long-rumored biography since 2009 and has interviewed Jobs, members of his family, colleagues at Apple and competitors.
Many Jobs biographies have been written, but not with his authorization. He reacted to at least one book with disapproval. In 2005, Apple banished works by John Wiley & Sons from its stores because the publisher had signed up an unauthorized biography, "iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business," by Jeffrey Young and William Simon.
Isaacson is a former top executive at CNN and Time magazine who has written best-sellers about Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.
He is currently the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a "nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute" in Washington, DC.
Jobs, 56, has had numerous health problems and announced in January that he would take his third leave of absence in seven years. During that time, he has survived a rare but curable form of pancreatic cancer and undergone a liver transplant. He appeared at a press conference in early March to unveil the iPad 2.
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