American biographer, journalist, and former CNN chairman whose biographies of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Elon Musk defined the genre of technology genius biography and became the primary public intellectual accounts of each subject.
Established the model of the embedded authorized biography — gaining years of access to his subjects and producing the most complete accounts of their methods and psychology — making his books the canonical primary sources through which most people understand Jobs, Einstein, and Musk.
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