Steve Jobs' first authorized biography — arguably the hottest book in history for Apple fans — will be published on November 21 2011, four months earlier than anticipated.

Author Walter Isaacson wrote: "The cover is the Albert Watson portrait taken for Fortune in 2009. The back is a Norman Seeff portrait of him in the lotus position holding the original Macintosh, which ran in Rolling Stone in January 1984. The title font is Helvetica. It will look as you see it, with no words on the back cover."