The Steve Jobs biography will be available November 21, 2011 according to Barnes and Noble, reports 9to5Mac. The 448-page book by Walter Isaacson, head of the Aspen Institute (which together with The Atlantic, co-hosts the annual Aspen Ideas Festival), was based on over 40 interviews with the Apple founder over 100 conversations with friends, family members, colleagues and competitors. Jobs gave his full cooperation and has not yet read it, according to the Barnes and Noble overview. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out."

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