Steve Jobs: A Biography

From the Jobs Family Album

In August 2011, when Jobs was very ill, we sat in his room and went through wedding and vacation pictures for me to use in this book.

The wedding ceremony, 1991: Kobun Chino, Steve’s Sōtō Zen teacher, shook a stick, struck a gong, lit incense, and chanted.

With his proud father Paul Jobs: After Steve’s sister Mona tracked down their biological father, Steve refused ever to meet him.

Cutting the cake in the shape of Half Dome with Laurene and his daughter from a previous relationship, Lisa Brennan.

Laurene, Lisa, and Steve: Lisa moved into their home shortly afterward and stayed through her high school years.

Steve, Eve, Reed, Erin, and Laurene in Ravello, Italy, 2003: Even on vacation, he often withdrew into his work.

Dangling Eve in Foothills Park, Palo Alto: “She’s a pistol and has the strongest will of any kid I’ve ever met. It’s like payback.”

With Laurene, Eve, Erin, and Lisa at the Corinth Canal in Greece, 2006: “For young people, this whole world is the same now.”

With Erin in Kyoto, 2010: Like Reed and Lisa, she got a special trip to Japan with her father.

With Reed in Kenya, 2007: “When I was diagnosed with cancer, I made my deal with God or whatever, which was that I really wanted to see Reed graduate.”

And just one more from Diana Walker: a 2004 portrait at his house in Palo Alto.