Last year, the New York Times reported that in 2009, research began on an authorized biography of Steve Jobs, the first book about Steve Jobs written with the full cooperation of Mr. Jobs. The book is to be called iSteve: The Book of Jobs and is being written by Walter Isaacson, a New Orleans native who has previously run Time magazine and CNN. (We both went to the same high school, although he graduated about 17 years before me, and I have not yet had the chance to run either Time or CNN.) Isaacson has published numerous well-reviewed books including biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Kissinger.
Last night, Simon & Schuster announced that the book will be published in early 2012. For some good background on Isaacson and this book, check out this article by Philip Elmer-DeWitt that ran last night in Fortune.
