Brent Schlender

Schlender covered Apple for the Wall Street Journal and Fortune over a quarter of a century and interviewed Steve Jobs repeatedly through both the exile and the return, which is the ground Becoming Steve Jobs stands on. The book, with Rick Tetzeli, argues against the picture of an unchanging tyrant and traces what the NeXT and Pixar years taught him. Apple executives who had disliked the authorised biography endorsed this one publicly, which several reviewers treated as a reason to read it carefully rather than as a recommendation.