9 things you didn’t know about the life of Steve Jobs

     For all of his years in the spotlight at the helm of Apple, Steve Jobs in many ways remains an inscrutable figure — even in his death. Fiercely private, Jobs concealed most specifics about his personal life, from his curious family life to the details of his battle with pancreatic cancer — a disease that ultimately claimed him on Wednesday, at the age of 56. ...

     While the CEO and co-founder of Apple steered most interviews away from the public fascination with his private life, there's plenty we know about Jobs the person, beyond the Mac and the iPhone. If anything, the obscure details of his interior life paint a subtler, more nuanced portrait of how one of the finest technology minds of our time grew into the dynamo that we remember him as today.

1. Early life and childhood
2. College dropout
3. Fibbed to his Apple co-founder about a job at Atari
4. The wife he leaves behind
5. His sister is a famous author
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By Taylor Hatmaker, Tecca | Today in Tech – Thu, 6 Oct, 2011