Steve Jobs Authorized Biography Coming
CUPERTINO (CBS/AP) - 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 conducted interviews with Jobs, his family members, colleagues and competitors.
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Tracy Guest, a spokeswoman of Simon & Schuster said no further details were available and that neither Jobs nor Isaacson would be commenting.
Many books about Jobs have been written, but not with his authorization. He reacted to at least one book with active 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 S. Young and William L. Simon.
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Few biographers are better connected than Isaacson, a former top executive at CNN and Time magazine who has written best-sellers about Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. Currently, he's the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a "nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute" in Washington.
"This is the perfect match of subject and author, and it is certain to be a landmark book about one of the world's greatest innovators," Jonathan Karp, publisher of Simon & Schuster, said in a statement. "Just as he did with Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson is telling a unique story of revolutionary genius."
Jobs, 56, has had numerous health problems and announced in January that he would take a leave of absence from Apple - his third in seven years. During that time, he survived a rare but curable form of pancreatic cancer and undergone a liver transplant. He appeared at a press conference last month to announce the iPad 2.
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