Authorized Jobs bio to be released Monday

The production team at the venerable TV newsmagazine show "60 Minutes" have posted a tweet revealing that Walter Isaacson, the historian and biographer who has written Jobs' authorized account of his life, will be on the show Sunday night to discuss the book, simply entitled Steve Jobs, and the man behind it. Steve Kroft will be handling the interview, providing the first detailed insight into the biography, which hits stores Monday.

Isaacson earlier today contacted Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak via social networks to reassure him that his comments on Jobs did indeed make it into the book, which was revised and expanded following Jobs' death earlier this month. Isaacson, who has previously done biographies on Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger, spoke to Wozniak several times over the phone and had brief in-person chats, according to an except of Isaacson's e-mail that Woz posted as a status update. Isaacson sent the note to Woz when informed that various tweets (the authorship of which is not made clear) gave the impression that Wozniak wasn't sure if his comments were included in the book.

Unusually, no early or review copies of the book have been given out by the publisher, perhaps to avoid early commenters picking out more salacious or controversial excerpts out of context before the book has time to appear on shelves. It was reported during the writing process that Jobs encouraged colleagues to be candid in their remembrances of him.

The book is available for pre-order from both online and retail booksellers and carries a list price of $35.

by MacNN Staff