Steve Jobs Biography set for November 21?

Who exactly is Steve Jobs? Steve Jobs is the CEO of the high and mighty company called Apple. (AKA Macintosh) For a long time now, there has been rumors of a biography of Steve Jobs and now it all seems to be coming sooner rather than later.

According to Barnes and Noble’s website, the official Steve Jobs biography will be available on November 21, 2011. This biography will be titled “Steve Jobs: A Biography”. Before this release date, there were rumors of the book being released on March 6, 2012. Since it’s being released on November 21, 2011, this is a HUGE stepping point in terms of the release date.

This book isn’t the longest book in world at only 448 pages but it is based on over 40 interviews. Not only is it with just Steve Jobs and someone else, it has interviews with his family and friends. This biography was approved by Steve Jobs but he had no control over the contents. Very interesting. The Apple CEO had this to say about the biography:

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that, he said. But I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.

Below you will be able to find the full description of the biography.

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues this book chronicles the rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

It is also a book about innovation. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the 21st century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off limits and instead encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly even foes, former girlfriends, and colleagues he had once fired or infuriated. “I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that,” he said. “But I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.”
Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. Likewise, his friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.

He was not a model boss or human being, tidily packaged for emulation. Driven by demons, he could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

What do you think about this? Will you be purchasing the biography of Steve Jobs? Leave your comments below.

[via TechJohnson]