Chrisann Brennan
| Chrisann Brennan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
29 September 1954 Dayton, Ohio |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | The Bite in the Apple (memoir) |
| Partner | Steve Jobs |
| Children | Lisa Brennan-Jobs |
Chrisann Brennan (born September 29, 1954) is an American painter and writer who wrote the autobiography The Bite in the Apple about her relationship with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. She is the mother of Jobs's first child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs.
Brennan was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1954, one of four daughters of James Richard Brennan and Virginia Lavern Rickey. Chrisann was named after the flower chrysanthemum. Brennan notes in her memoir that she is "dyslexic, which has had the effect of making me differently wired, creative, and a voracious problem solver— bright, but more than slightly clueless to convention."
Her father worked for Sylvania and the family lived in a number of places including Colorado Springs and Nebraska. They eventually settled in Sunnyvale, California. Her parents divorced after their move to Buffalo, New York. Brennan attended Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, where she met Steve Jobs during the early months of 1972.
Jobs was a senior and Brennan a junior in the early months of 1972 and began a relationship that spring. They remained together after he graduated from Homestead in 1972. That summer, before he left for Reed College, he and Brennan rented a house from their other roommate, Al. They found an advertisement posted on the De Anza College bulletin board for a job that required people to dress up as characters from Alice in Wonderland. Brennan portrayed Alice while Wozniak, Jobs, and Al portrayed the White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter. Brennan remained involved with Jobs while he was at Reed College. She also met his Reed friend Daniel Kottke for the first time. Brennan (who was now a senior at Homestead) did not have plans to attend college, and was supportive of Jobs when he told her he planned to drop out of Reed because he didn't want to spend his parents' money on it (neither her father nor Jobs' adoptive parents had gone to college). He continued to attend by auditing classes, but since he was no longer an official student, Brennan stopped visiting him. Jobs later asked her to come and live with him in a house he rented near the Reed campus, but she refused. He had started seeing other women, and she was interested in someone she met in her art class. Brennan speculates that the house was Jobs' attempt to make their relationship monogamous again.
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