Steve Jobs' official biography coming soon?

SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Type Steve Jobs on your Google search engine and the site throws up over 4.7 crore results – from news to biography to gossip to trivia! Of course, we can give some discount in the number for other Steves, Jobs and a few other namesakes. Still the numbers are huge.

Also there are a few books written on him, which tried to capture the life of the visionary whose life is a source of inspiration for many. However, there was no official biography as such.

And so it naturally makes news when we hear that an official biography of the legend is in the offing. According to a New York Times report, Apple’s chief executive is set to collaborate on an authorized biography, to be written by Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine.

Siting two sources briefed on the project, the report said, the book, which is in the early planning stages, would cover the entire life of Jobs, from his youth in the area now known as Silicon Valley through his years at Apple.

Considering the fact that Jobs have rarely opened up about his personal life, the news on the official biography is a big news. The last time (or was it for the first time) that we heard him say something really personal was in 2009, when he returned to Apple after a liver transplant.

“As some of you know, about five months ago I had a liver transplant," Jobs said. "I now have the liver of a mid-20s person who died in a car crash and was generous enough to donate their organs, and I wouldn't be here without such generosity,” he said then.

So it makes news when he opens up.