The first official biography on Apple CEO Steve Jobs written with his full cooperation will be published in early 2012, a U.S. publisher said on Sunday.


HTML clipboard Apple CEO Steve Jobs poses with the new iPhone 4 during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California in this June 7, 2010 file photo.  (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)
The biography "iSteve: The Book of Jobs," written by Walter Isaacson, will be published in early 2012 after three years of interviews with Jobs, his family, colleagues at Apple and competitors, the publisher Simon & Schuster said in a statement.


Walter Isaacson, who has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of Time, currently is the chairman of the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors. He has written best-sellers on Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Henry Kissinger.


"This is the perfect match of subject and author, and it is certain to be a landmark book about one of the world's greatest innovators. Just as he did with Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson is telling a unique story of revolutionary genius," Simon & Schuster Publisher Jonathan Karp said in the statement, which was released to Bloomberg and other U.S. media outlets.


Jobs, 56, announced in January that he would take a medical leave from Apple to "focus on his health." His life and career have been depicted in many biographies, but none of them is with his authorization.


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