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Steve Jobs the man who thought different : a biography

Traces the inspiring life and career of the late founder of Apple, covering topics ranging from his struggles as an adopted child and a college dropout to his Buddhist faith and friendship with Steve Wozniak, in a portrait framed around his inspirational Stanford University commencement speech.

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Main Author: Blumenthal, Karen
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Jobs, Steve, > 1955-2011 > Juvenile nonfiction.
Computer engineers > United States > Biography > Juvenile.
Inventors > United States > Biography > Juvenile.
Businesspeople > United States > Biography > Juvenile.
Apple Computer, Inc. > History > Juvenile nonfiction.
Computer industry > United States > History > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:Traces the inspiring life and career of the late founder of Apple, covering topics ranging from his struggles as an adopted child and a college dropout to his Buddhist faith and friendship with Steve Wozniak, in a portrait framed around his inspirational Stanford University commencement speech.
Physical Description:310 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-283) and index.
ISBN:9781250015570 (hardcover)
125001557X (hardcover)
9781250014450 (pbk.)
125001445X (pbk.)
Author Notes:

Karen Blumenthal (1959-2020) was a financial journalist and editor whose career included five years with The Dallas Morning News and twenty-five with The Wall Street Journal --where her work helped earn the paper a Pulitzer Prize for its breaking news coverage of the September 11, 2001 attacks--before becoming an award-winning children's non-fiction book writer.

Three of her books, Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History , Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different , and Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition , were finalists for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award.

Karen was also the author of Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 (named a Sibert Honor Book), Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX (winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award), Tommy: The Gun That Changed America , Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend , and Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights .


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