喬布斯授權傳記將出版 只爲兒女瞭解其一生
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs used the last interview before his death to explain to his children why "I wasn't always there for them", it was revealed today。
Stricken with terminal cancer and too ill to climb stairs the 56-year-old, whose death was announced on Wednesday, wanted to ensure that his biography was ultimately a love letter to his family。
"I wanted my kids to know me", he told Pulitzer Prize nominee and author Walter Isaacson, when asked why he agreed to a tell-all book despite living a famously private life。
"I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did", he added poignantly at his home in Palo Alto, California。
On that final visit last month Isaacson found Jobs coiled up in pain in a downstairs bedroom where he had moved to avoid going up and down stairs, "but his mind was still sharp and his humour vibrant", Isaacson said today。
He is survived by his wife Laurene Powell Jobs and their three children Eve, Erin and Reed but he also fathered a love child with his high school sweetheart Chrisann Brennan。
Lisa Brennan-Jobs, 33, was only accepted by her father two years later after a court-ordered blood test proved she was his。
Ms Brennan-Jobs has made a living for herself, after graduating from Harvard University, as a journalist and writer。
The biography, simply titled Steve Jobs, was at the top of the best-seller lists within hours of Apple's announcement of his death。
It is top of the Amazon chart, number three on Barnes & and most fittingly the book also tops Apple's own chart: the iTunes books best-seller list。
Due to this incredible demand, publisher Simon & Schuster has announced that the release date has been moved up from November 21 to October 24.據英國《每日郵報》2011年10月7日報道，蘋果公司創始人史蒂夫•喬布斯在他去世前的最後一次採訪中，向他的孩子們解釋了爲什麼他“一直沒能陪在他們身邊”，這一真相今日得以披露。
在晚期癌症的折磨下，病得太重以至於上樓都有困難的喬布斯於上週三離世，享年56歲。生前他希望自己的傳記最終可以成爲一封寫給家人的情書。
“我希望我的孩子瞭解我”，當喬布斯被問及爲何他過着名人那種隱私的生活，卻同意將之公諸於衆時，他這樣告訴沃爾特•艾薩克森，普利策獎的提名者，知名作家。
“我一直沒能陪在他們身邊，我希望他們明白原因，希望他們理解我所做的一切”，在加州帕洛阿爾託的家中，喬布斯令人心酸地補充道。
在上個月最後的那次訪談中，艾薩克森發現喬布斯被疾病的痛苦所纏繞，他坐在樓下的臥室裏，搬到這裏是爲了避免上下樓梯，“但他的思維依舊犀利，言談也很幽默”，艾薩克森說。
他留下了妻子勞倫娜•鮑威爾•喬布斯和三個孩子伊娃、艾倫和利德，但其實他與高中時期的戀人克麗絲•布倫南還有一個私生女。
麗薩•布倫南•喬布斯，現年33歲，在通過法庭下令的血緣測試，證明其父是喬布斯兩年後，才被喬布斯接受認可。
布倫南•喬布斯早已自己謀生，從哈佛大學畢業後，她成爲了一名記者和作家。
在蘋果宣佈喬布斯死亡後的幾小時內，這本被簡單題名爲《史蒂夫•喬布斯》的傳記登上了暢銷書排行榜的榜首。
它也是亞馬遜(Amazon)書店的銷售榜首，巴恩書店(Barnes & )排行第三名，而最爲理所應當的是，這本書也佔據了蘋果公司自身榜單的榜首：iTunes暢銷書排行榜冠軍。
由於令人難以置信的需求量，出版商西蒙與舒斯特公司(Simon & Schuster)已經宣佈發佈日期將由11月21日提前至10月24日。
