Steve jobs biography book name

authorized biography by Walter Isaacson

Steve Jobs is the authorized self-titled biography of American business magnate and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The book was written at the request of Jobs by Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN and Time who had previously written best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.^[1][2]

Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—in addition to interviews with more than family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Isaacson was given "unprecedented" access to Jobs's life.^[3] Jobs is said to have encouraged the people interviewed to speak honestly.

Although Jobs cooperated with the book, he asked for no control over its content other than the book's cover, and waived the right to read it before it was published.^[4] Describing his writing, Isaacson commented that he had striven to take a balanced view of his subject that did not sugarcoat Jobs's flaws.^[5]

The book was released on October 24, , by Simon & Schuster in the United States, 19 days after Jobs's death.^[6]

A film adaptation written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, with Michael Fassbender starring in the title role, was released on October 9,

Appearance

Front cover

The front cover uses a photo of Steve Jobs commissioned by Fortune magazine in for a portfolio of powerful people.

The photograph was taken by Albert Watson.

When the photograph was taken, he said he insisted on having a three-hour period to set up his equipment, adding that he wanted to make "[every shoot] as greased lightning fast as possible for the [subject]." When Jobs arrived he didn't immediately look at Watson, but instead at the equipment, focusing on Watson's 4×5 camera before saying, "wow, you're shooting film."^[8]

If you look at that shot, you can see the intensity.

It was my intention that by looking at him, that you knew this guy was smart. I heard later that it was his favorite photograph of all time.

—&#;Albert Watson^[8]

Jobs gave Watson an hour—longer than he had given most photographers for a portrait session. Watson reportedly instructed Jobs to make "95 percent, almost percent of eye contact with the camera," and to "think about the next project you have on the table," in addition to thinking about instances when people have challenged him.^[8]

The title font is Helvetica.^[9]

Back cover

The back cover uses another photographic portrait of Jobs taken in his living room in Woodside, California, in February by Norman Seeff.

In a Behind the Cover article published by Time magazine, Seeff recalls him and Jobs "just sitting" on his living room floor, talking about "creativity and everyday stuff," when Jobs left the room and returned with a Macintosh K (the original Macintosh computer). Jobs "[plopped] down" in the lotus position holding the computer in his lap when Seeff took the photograph.^[10]

We did do a few more shots later on, and he even did a few yoga poses—he lifted his leg and put it over his shoulder—and I just thought we were two guys hanging out, chatting away, and enjoying the relationship.

It wasn't like there was a conceptualization here—this was completely off the cuff, spontaneity that we never thought would become an iconic image.

—&#;Norman Seeff^[10]

Title

The book's working title, iSteve: The Book of Jobs, was chosen by publisher Simon & Schuster's publicity department.

Although author Walter Isaacson was "never quite sure about it", his wife and daughter reportedly were. However, they thought it was "too cutesy" and as a result Isaacson persuaded the publisher to change the title to something "simpler and more elegant."^[11]

The title Steve Jobs was allegedly chosen to reflect Jobs's "minimalist" style and to emphasize the biography's authenticity, further differentiating it from unauthorized publications, such as iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business by Jeffrey Young.^[12]

Chapters

Many of the chapters within the book have sub-headings, which are matched in various audiobook versions resulting in listings showing + chapters when there are only 42 chapters.

The audiobook contains a mistake on one chapter title, listing Chapter 41 as "Round Three, A Never-ending Struggle" instead of "Round Three, Twilight Struggle" as published.

Chapter number	Chapter title	Sub-heading number	Sub-heading title	Approx. audiobook mark
Introduction	How this book came to be
Chapter 1	Childhood, Abandoned and Chosen		The Adoption
	Silicon Valley
	School
Chapter 2	Odd Couple, The Two Steves		Woz
	The Blue Box
Chapter 3	The Dropout, Turn On, Tune in		Chrisann Brennan
	Reed College
	Robert Friedland
	Drop Out
Chapter 4	Atari and India, Zen and the Art of Game Design		Atari
	India
	The Search
	Breakout
Chapter 5	The Apple I, Turn On, Boot Up, Jack In		Machines of Loving Grace
	The Homebrew Computer Club
	Apple is Born
	Garage Band
Chapter 6	The Apple II, Dawn of a New Age		An Integrated Package
	Mike Markkula
	Regis McKenna
	The First Launch Event
	Mike Scott
Chapter 7	Chrisann and Lisa, He Who Is Abandoned
Chapter 8	Xerox and Lisa, Graphical User Interface		A New Baby
	Xerox PARC
	Great Artists Steal
Chapter 9	Going Public, A Man of Wealth and Fame		Options
	Baby You're a Rich Man
Chapter 10	The Mac is Born, You Say You Want a Revolution		Jef Raskin's Baby
	Texaco Towers
Chapter 11	The Reality Distortion Field, Playing by His Own Set of Rules
Chapter 12	The Design, Real Artists Simplify		A Bauhaus Aesthetic
	Like a Porsche
Chapter 13	Building The Mac, The Journey Is The Reward		Competition
	End-to-end Control
	Machines of the Year
	Let's Be Pirates!
Chapter 14	Enter Sculley, The Pepsi Challenge		The Courtship
	The Honeymoon
Chapter 15	The Launch, A Dent in the Universe		Real Artists Ship
	The "" Advert
	Publicity Blast
	January 24,
Chapter 16	Gates And Jobs, When Orbits Intersect		The Macintosh Partnership
	The Battle of the GUI
Chapter 17	Icarus, What goes up		Flying High
	Falling
	Thirty Years Old
	Exodus
	Showdown, Spring
	Plotting a Coup
	Seven Days in May
	Like a Rolling Stone
Chapter 18	NeXT, Prometheus Unbound		The Pirates Abandon Ship
	To Be On your Own
	The Computer
	Perot to the Rescue
	Gates and NeXT
	IBM
	The Launch, October
Chapter 19	Pixar, Technology Meets Art		Lucasfilm's Computer Division
	Animation
	Tin Toy
Chapter 20	A Regular Guy, Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word		Joan Baez
	Finding Joanne and Mona
	The Lost Father
	Lisa
	The Romantic
Chapter 21	Family Man, At Home with the Jobs Clan		Laurene Powell
	The Wedding, March 18,
	A Family Home
	Lisa Moves In
	Children
Chapter 22	Toy Story, Buzz and Woody to the Rescue		Jeffrey Katzenberg
	Cut!
	To Infinity!
Chapter 23	The Second Coming, What Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round at Last		Things Fall Apart
	Apple Falling
	Slouching toward Cupertino
Chapter 24	The Restoration, The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win		Hovering Backstage
	Exit, Pursued by a Bear
	Macworld Boston, August
	The Microsoft Pact
Chapter 25	Think Different, Jobs as iCEO		Here's to the Crazy Ones
	iCEO
	Killing the Clones
	Product Line Review
Chapter 26	Design Principles, The Studio of Jobs and Ive		Jony Ive
	Inside the Studio
Chapter 27	The iMac, Hello (Again)		Back to the Future
	The Launch, May 6,
Chapter 28	CEO, Still Crazy after All These Years		Tim Cook
	Mock Turtlenecks and Teamwork
	From iCEO to CEO
Chapter 29	Apple Stores, Genius Bars and Siena Sandstone		The Customer Experience
	The Prototype
	Wood, Stone, Steel, Glass
Chapter 30	The Digital Hub, From iTunes to the iPod		Connecting the Dots
	FireWire
	iTunes
	The iPod
	That's It!
	The Whiteness of the Whale
Chapter 31	The iTunes Store, I'm the Pied Piper		Warner Music
	Herding Cats
	Microsoft
	Mr. Tambourine Man
Chapter 32	Music Man, The Sound Track of His Life		On His iPod
	Bob Dylan
	The Beatles
	Bono
	Yo-Yo Ma
Chapter 33	Pixar's Friends, and Foes		A Bug's Life
	Steve's Own Movie
	The Divorce
Chapter 34	Twenty-First-Century Macs, Setting Apple Apart		Clams, Ice Cubes, and Sunflowers
	Intel Inside
	Options
Chapter 35	Round One, Memento Mori		Cancer
	The Stanford Commencement
	A Lion at Fifty
Chapter 36	The iPhone, Three Revolutionary Products in One		An iPod That Makes Calls
	Multi-touch
	Gorilla Glass
	The Design
	The Launch
Chapter 37	Round Two, The Cancer Recurs		The Battles of
	Memphis
	Return
Chapter 38	The iPad, Into the Post-PC Era		You Say You Want a Revolution
	The Launch, January
	Advertising
	Apps
	Publishing and Journalism
Chapter 39	New Battles, And Echoes of Old Ones		Google: Open versus Closed
	Flash, the App Store, and Control
	Antennagate: Design versus Engineering
	Here Comes the Sun
Chapter 40	To Infinity, The Cloud, the Spaceship, and Beyond		The iPad 2
	iCloud
	A New Campus
Chapter 41	Round Three, The Twilight Struggle		Family Ties
	President Obama
	Third Medical Leave,
	Visitors
	That Day Has Come
Chapter 42	Legacy, The Brightest Heaven of Invention		FireWire
	And One More Thing
	Coda

Reception

Janet Maslin's review of the book for The New York Times mixed mild criticisms with praise.

Maslin wrote that Isaacson's biography presented "an encyclopedic survey of all that Mr. Jobs accomplished, replete with the passion and excitement that it deserves."^[13]

A number of Steve Jobs's family and close colleagues expressed disapproval, including Laurene Powell Jobs, Tim Cook and Jony Ive.^[14][5][15] Cook remarked that the biography did Jobs "a tremendous disservice", and that "it didn't capture the person.

Steve jobs biography in hindi: The person I read about there is somebody I would never have wanted to work with over all this time. Tools Tools. Isaacson also sees the constructive flip-side of Jobs's flaws, arguing that his crazed perfectionism and sublime sense of design he wanted even his computers' circuit boards to be visually elegant begat brilliant innovations, from the Mac to the iPad, that blended "poetry and processors. Im the Pied Piper.

The person I read about there is somebody I would never have wanted to work with over all this time."^[5] Ive said of the book that "my contempt couldn't be lower."^[14][5]

Commercially, the biography was a notable success, selling more than three million copies in the United States alone by ^[5]

Film adaptation

Main article: Steve Jobs (film)

Steve Jobs is a drama film based on the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender in the title role.

The film is directed by Danny Boyle, produced by Scott Rudin, and written by Aaron Sorkin (with a screenplay adapted both from Isaacson's Steve Jobs as well as from interviews conducted by Sorkin).

Other media

Extracts from the biography have been the feature of various magazines, in addition to interviews with the author, Walter Isaacson.^[16]

To memorialize Jobs's life after his death on October 5, , TIME published a commemorative issue on October 8, The issue's cover featured a portrait of Jobs, taken by Norman Seeff, in which he is sitting in the lotus position holding the original Macintosh computer.

The portrait was published in Rolling Stone in January and is featured on the back cover of Steve Jobs. The issue marked the eighth time Jobs has been featured on the cover of Time.^[17] The issue included a photographic essay by Diana Walker, a retrospective on Apple by Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman, and a six-page essay by Walter Isaacson.

Isaacson's essay served as a preview of Steve Jobs and described Jobs pitching the book to him.^[18]

Bloomberg Businessweek also released a commemorative issue of its magazine remembering the life of Jobs.

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The cover of the magazine features Apple-like simplicity, with a black-and-white, up-close photo of Jobs and his years of birth and death. In tribute to Jobs's minimalist style, the issue was published without advertisements. It featured extensive essays by Steve Jurvetson, John Sculley, Sean Wisely, William Gibson, and Walter Isaacson.

Similarly to Time's commemorative issue, Isaacson's essay served as a preview of Steve Jobs.

Fortune featured an exclusive extract of the biography on October 24, , focusing on the "friend-enemy" relationship Jobs had with Bill Gates.^[19]

Awards and honors

Even after a late release that year, the book became Amazon's #1 seller for ^[20]

See also

References

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