Her mother, Chrisann Brennan, and her father, Steve Jobs, first met at Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, in 1972 and had an on-off relationship for the next five years. Lisa Nicole Brennan was born on May 17, 1978, on Robert Friedland's All One Farm commune outside Portland, Oregon.

A fictionalized version of Brennan-Jobs is a major character in her aunt Mona Simpson's novel A Regular Guy. An early Apple business computer, the Apple Lisa, is named after her, and she has been depicted in a number of biographies and films, including the biopics Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999), Jobs (2013), and Steve Jobs (2015). Brennan-Jobs later worked as a journalist and magazine writer.

Lisa and Steve Jobs eventually reconciled, and he accepted his paternity. Jobs initially denied paternity for several years, which led to a legal case and various media reports in the early days of Apple. She is the daughter of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Chrisann Brennan. Scrappy, wise, and funny, Lisa offers an intimate window into the peculiar world of this family, and the strange magic of Silicon Valley in the seventies and eighties.Lisa Nicole Brennan-Jobs ( née Brennan born May 17, 1978) is an American writer. Small Fry is Lisa Brennan-Jobs's poignant story of childhood and growing up.

When her relationship with her mother grew strained in high school, Lisa decided to move in with her father, hoping he'd become the parent she'd always wanted him to be. Lisa found her father's attention thrilling, but he could also be cold, critical and unpredictable. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations, and private schools. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. The New York Times–bestselling memoir by Steve Jobs' daughter: 'This sincere and disquieting portrait reveals a complex father-daughter relationship.' - Publishers Weekly, starred review Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents-artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs-Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley.

Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs