Steve Jobs
A Biography
Book Summary
Draws on more than 40 interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors and colleagues, to offer a look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.
Awards and Recognition
34 weeks on NPR Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List
NPR stories about Steve Jobs
Best Books Of 2011
The Lives Of Geniuses: Five Brilliant Biographies
After Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs died just over two months ago, President Obama noted, "There may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented." Indeed, there's no doubt that the man responsible for the Macintosh computer, iPhone and iPad forever changed the way the world communicates. In his new biography of Jobs, Walter Isaacson explains how the skinny teenager with a fondness for pranks and LSD became
—Michael Schaub
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