Steve Jobs (book)

Steve Jobs is the authorized biography of the life and work of Steve Jobs, written by Walter Isaacson. The bears the subtitle " The authorized biography of the Apple founder ." In the original English it is called simply "Steve Jobs ". The first version was released shortly after Jobs' death on October 24, 2011 Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York. The first edition in German translation was only a few days later published on 2 November 2011 at the C. Bertelsmann Verlag. Meanwhile, there are numerous other approved conditions, such as paperback or e-book.

Formation

In the introduction to the biography, Isaacson describes in detail how the work was created: Steve Jobs took in the early summer of 2004 the first time contact with him to talk about the creation of a biography since Isaascon had already written similar books on Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin. According to the company, Isaacson turned down the offer at first, because he believed that Jobs ' career would continue for a decade or two. The contact between Isaacson and Jobs got close in 2009. But decisive for the cooperation was a conversation between Isaacson and Jobs ' wife Laurene Powell Jobs was that Isaacson on Jobs' health problems and in particular had pointed his cancer. The actual start of the activity as an author select a phone call on New Year's Eve in 2009, as Isaacson. At the time, Jobs had first details about his childhood and the relationship with Hewlett -Packard reported to him.

In the introduction it is argued that Isaacson conducted a total of about 40 interviews with Steve Jobs. In addition, he had spoken to about " 100 friends, relatives, competitors, opponents and colleagues " in order to verify the information of the Apple founder. The biography contains even before the introduction an overview of "important people ", but it is not clear whether this is only about the interlocutor of Isaacson or even other people.

Content

The biography tells the life and work after the main character in an alternating sequence. Jobs and other persons are thereby shown in the third person, while Isaacson occurs as the narrator in I - form only in the introduction. Images are usually displayed at the beginning or end of a section. Overall, the biography of 41 chapters that are overwritten as follows is: