Salon.com > Mona Simpson http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 03:14:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Steve Jobs’ sister pens an instant classic http://www.salon.com/2011/10/31/steve_jobs_sister_pens_an_instant_classic/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/31/steve_jobs_sister_pens_an_instant_classic/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10159820 If you want to receive an amazing eulogy, you should probably make sure you have a successful novelist for a sister. In an instantly classic companion piece to Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement speech at Stanford, Jobs' sister Mona Simpson shared the wise, wrenching and deeply heartfelt appreciation she delivered at his Oct. 16 memorial service with the New York Times.

How would you like to be remembered, in the hands of a skillful wordsmith? "Rich and famous," as Jobs already was by the time Simpson met her long-lost sibling in 1985?  Those are certainly words most of us grow up dreaming will someday be applied to our names. And "handsome" -- what man wouldn't love that? But rather than reeling off a list of Jobs' already well-documented successes, Simpson instead turns her eulogy into a celebration of not just a life well lived, but a death well done.

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