Authorized Steve Jobs Biography Coming in 2012

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has finally agreed to participate in a biography about his life written by Walter Isaacson, according to ABC News.

Simon & Schuster announced 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.

Other biographies have been written about Steve Jobs but not with his authorization. in 2005, Apple reportedly banished works by John Wiley & Sons from its stores because the publisher had signed up a biography by Jerffrey S. Youn and William L. Simon entitled, "iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business."


"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."

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