Literary Birthdays - Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955) - Computer designer and corporate executive Steve Jobs is cofounder of Apple Computers.

With his vision of affordable personal computers, he launched one of the largest industries of the past decades while still in his early twenties. He remains one of the most inventive and energetic minds in American technology. This week we picked a book based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted by Walter Isaakson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, former chairman of CNN and the managing director of Time magazine.