Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Lisa Brennan Jobs is an American Journalist and writer. Her journalism has appeared in high-profile publications and journals like “Vogue,” “Oprah Magazine,” “Southwest Review,” “Harvard Crimson,” and “O.” She has a Harvard degree. She publishes her blogs and articles while working as a freelancer. She also inspired the name “Lisa” for an early Apple computer.

Several movies and biographies, including the biopics “Jobs,” “Steve Jobs,” and “Pirates of Silicon Valley,” have featured Lisa Brennan-Jobs as a character. And not just this! In the book “A Regular Guy,” written by novelist Mona Simpsons (her aunt), a fictitious version of Brennan-Jobs has a significant role. Small Fry, a book about Brennan-Jobs’ childhood and the complicated and occasionally challenging relationship she had with her Father, was published in 2018.

When Brennan-Jobs was living with her mother, she attended The Nueva School and Lick Wilmerding High School. Later, after she had moved in with her father, she attended Palo Alto High School. She enrolled at Harvard University in 1996 and studied overseas for one year at King's College London. While a student at Harvard, she wrote for The Harvard Crimson. 

She graduated in 2000 and subsequently moved to Manhattan to work as a writer. She has written for The Southwest Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Harvard Advocate, Spiked, Vogue, and The Oprah Magazine.