<p>I think the Mona Simpson part of this is the most amazing part. </p>
<p>Steve Jobs was adopted at birth. His father and mother married less than a year later. They had a daughter whom they named Mona. Mona was not told of her biological brother’s existence. </p>
<p>The parents divorced. The mom remarried. Mona took her father’s surname. </p>
<p>So Steve Jobs and Mona Simpson are biological siblings. How weird is that? For those of you who don’t recognize the name, she is a well known writer and now teaches at Bard College. </p>
<p>One of the links in the wikipedia article on Simpson has a link with a picture of Jobs’ biological father, who lives in Nevada. He never met his son. </p>
<p>Steve and Mona found each other as adults. Jobs often said that his adoptive parents were the world’s best. After they died, however, he decided to look for his birth mother and discovered Mona’s existence. There was an article in the NY Times Sunday Magazine years ago which talked about their relationship. They had truly odd things in common—both were fish eating vegetarians who smoked, for example. And people who knew both of them said that they shared some mannerisms, especially when speaking.</p>
<p>Oh, and Mona’s other’s claim to fame? Her ex-H, a writer on the Simpsons, named Homer’s mother for his then wife.</p>