Steve Jobs biography: Release date moves up, skyrockets to No. 1. Publication of a new Steve Jobs biography is being pushed up to Oct. 24, and a flood of preorders for the book -- culled from hours of exclusive interviews with Jobs conducted over two years -- has sent the book skyrocketing to the No. 1 spot at Amazon.com.
Titled simply "Steve Jobs," the authorized autobiography by Walter Isaacson is now one of the most hotly anticipated books of the fall, driven by the outpouring of world-wide grief, admiration and renewed interest in the wake of Jobs' death this week at the age of 56. Steve Jobs: 1955-2011 It would be crass to say the timing was perfect -- except that Jobs would agree. Isaacson last interviewed Jobs about four weeks ago, around the time Jobs resigned as Apple's chief executive. In a scene that will appear at the end of the book, Jobs indicates that he knows the end is near, according to the Wall Street Journal, quoting "a person familiar with the matter. " Laurene Powell Jobs helps change lives, too. If the late Steve Jobs was determined to change the way people use technology, with visionary ideas and revolutionary products, Laurene Powell Jobs seems just as determined to change people's lives in more basic ways.
The widow of the Apple (AAPL) co-founder is even more intensely private than her husband, rarely giving interviews and only occasionally appearing in public at his side. But the former investment banker has long supported a range of progressive causes -- by working to help disadvantaged students and women, and donating money to environmental campaigns and Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential run. And though she has generally kept a low profile, 47-year-old Laurene Jobs could one day emerge as a powerful supporter of the social and progressive causes she has long favored. Steve Jobs, part 1 - 60 Minutes. Steve Jobs' black turtleneck reportedly explained in biography.