Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson is an American writer, journalist, and biographer whose books profile influential figures in science, technology, business, and the arts.

Biography: Biography is nonfiction that recounts and interprets an individual’s life. Isaacson’s best-known books use a person’s life as their central narrative.
The Sunday Times: The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper published in London. Isaacson began his journalism career there as a reporter.
Steve Jobs (book): Steve Jobs is Walter Isaacson’s 2011 biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The book became a widely read account of Jobs’s life and leadership.
Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur who co-founded Apple and led the development of influential consumer technology. Jobs granted Isaacson extensive interviews while the biography was being researched.
Journalism: Journalism is the gathering, verification, and communication of information about events and public affairs. Isaacson’s reporting background informs his research and narrative approach.
TIME: TIME is an American weekly news magazine founded in 1923. Isaacson worked at TIME and later became its managing editor.
Einstein: His Life and Universe: Einstein: His Life and Universe is Walter Isaacson’s 2007 biography of Albert Einstein. It brought Einstein’s personal history and scientific work together for general audiences.
Albert Einstein: Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist whose theories reshaped modern physics. Einstein’s papers and public image provided the central evidence for Isaacson’s biography.
Oral history: Oral history is the collection and interpretation of recorded memories from participants in past events. Interviews and recollections supply key evidence in several Isaacson biographies.
The Wise Men: The Wise Men is a 1986 history of six American diplomats and their influence on postwar foreign policy. Isaacson co-wrote this early book with Evan Thomas before his solo biographies.

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Ron ChernowCompared with: Isaacson’s subject range and contemporary figures differ from Chernow’s focus on American history.