Interview: Jessie Hartland and Telling the Story of Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs, we feel we know him and yet he is something of a mystery and there is an enormous amount to cover. Jessie Hartland has created an illustrated work, a « graphic biography, » that brings the public figure down to a human scale: « Steve Jobs: Insanely Great, » published by Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Read my review here.

Jessie Hartland is the author of the highly acclaimed graphic biography, « Bon Appetit: The Delicious Life of Julia Child, » described by the New York Times as “bursting with exuberant urban-naif gouache paintings and a hand-lettered text that somehow manages to recount every second of Child’s life.”

For her book on Steve Jobs, Ms. Hartland provides us with an engaging and comprehensive look at one of the great technology trailblazers of our time. « Steve Jobs: Insanely Great » is another wonderful example of an all-ages book providing a…

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