Chrisann Brennan

Chrisann Brennan
Chrisann Brennan in the 1972 edition of the Pegasus yearbook produced by Homestead High School
Chrisann Brennan in the 1972 edition of the Pegasus yearbook produced by Homestead High School
Born (1954-09-29) September 29, 1954 (age 70)
Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
OccupationPainter
Notable worksThe Bite in the Apple (memoir)
PartnerSteve Jobs (1972–1977)
ChildrenLisa Brennan-Jobs

Chrisann Brennan (born September 29, 1954)[1] is an American memoirist and painter.[2] She is the author of The Bite in the Apple,[3] an autobiography about her relationship with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. They had one child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs.

Early life

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.[1]

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.[1]

Relationship with Steve Jobs

Brennan and Jobs's relationship began in 1972 while in high school.[1][4] Brennan remained involved with Jobs while he was at Reed College.[4] In mid-1973, Jobs moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area. They remained involved with each other while continuing to see other people.[1]

After Brennan graduated from high school, she went to visit Jobs at the All One Farm, a commune in Oregon. Brennan was deeply influenced by the experience of meeting and working with the people that she met there.[1] In early 1975, Brennan became involved with a Zen Buddhist community in Los Altos. It was through this community she would meet and work with the Zen master Kobun. Brennan was also deeply involved in her art program at Foothill College, where she studied under Gordon Holler.[2]

At this time, she fell in love with Greg Calhoun (Jobs' former Reed classmate) who had come to visit from the All One Farm.[4] Brennan moved to the All One Farm and lived with Calhoun. They eventually moved back to the Bay Area, then traveled for a year through India, though their relationship ended by the time she returned to the United States.[1][4]

Apple (1977)

After her return from India, Brennan visited Jobs, whom she now considered just a friend, at his parents' home, where he was still living. It was during this period that Jobs and Brennan fell in love again, as Brennan noted changes in him that she attributes to Kōbun Chino Otogawa, whom she was also still following. It was also at this time that Jobs displayed a prototype Apple computer for Brennan and his parents in their living room. Brennan notes a shift in this time period, where the two main influences on Jobs were Apple and Kobun. By the early 1977, she and Jobs would spend time together at her home at Duveneck Ranch in Los Altos, which served as a hostel and environmental education center. Brennan also worked there as a teacher for inner-city children who came to learn about the farm.[1]

As Jobs and Apple became more successful, his relationship with Brennan grew more complex. In 1977 Brennan, Daniel Kottke, and Jobs moved into a house near the Apple office in Cupertino. Brennan notes that Jobs wanted the three of them to live together because, "Steve told me that he didn't want to get a house with just the two of us because it felt insufficient to him. Steve wanted his buddy Daniel to live with him because he believed it would break up the intensity of what wasn't working between us. Our relationship was running hot and cold. We were completely crazy about each other and utterly bored in turns. I had suggested to Steve that we separate, but he told me that he just couldn't bring himself to say good-bye." In addition, Jobs initially suggested that all three of them each have separate rooms. They were still involved with each other, but even then Brennan states that in her memory of the time, "I recalled how awful he was becoming and how I was starting to flounder".[1] When she moved into the house, she had initially planned to commit to becoming an artist. However, she also needed to find work and eventually took a position at Apple in the Shipping Department (where she was part of a team that tested, assembled, and shipped Apple IIs with Mark Johnson and Bob Martinengo whom she enjoyed working with).[1][5] She also took art classes at nearby De Anza College.[1]

Brennan's relationship with Jobs was deteriorating as his position with Apple grew and she began to consider ending the relationship. In October 1977, Brennan was approached by Apple employee #5, Rod Holt, who asked her to take "a paid apprenticeship designing blueprints for the Apples". Both Holt and Jobs felt that it would be a good position for her, given her artistic abilities. Brennan's decision, however, was overshadowed by the fact that she realized she was pregnant and that Jobs was the father. It took her a few days to tell Jobs, whose face, according to Brennan "turned ugly" at the news. According to Brennan, at the beginning of her third trimester, Jobs said to her: "I never wanted to ask that you get an abortion. I just didn't want to do that."[1] He also refused to discuss the pregnancy with her.[4] Brennan, herself, felt confused about what to do. She was estranged from her mother and afraid to discuss the matter with her father. She also did not feel comfortable with the idea of having an abortion. She chose instead to discuss the matter with Kobun, who encouraged her to have and keep the baby as he would lend his support. Meanwhile, Holt was waiting for her decision on the internship. Brennan states that Jobs continued to encourage her to take the internship, stating that she could "be pregnant and work at Apple, you can take the job. I don't get what the problem is." Brennan however notes that she "felt so ashamed: the thought of my growing belly in the professional environment at Apple, with the child being his, while he was unpredictable, in turn being punishing and sentimentally ridiculous. I could not have endured it." Brennan thus turned down the internship and decided to leave Apple. She states that Jobs told her "If you give up this baby for adoption, you will be sorry" and "I am never going to help you".[1]

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Now alone, Brennan was on welfare and cleaning houses to earn money. She would sometimes ask Jobs for money but he always refused. Brennan hid her pregnancy for as long as she could, living in a variety of homes, and continuing her work with Zen meditation. At the same time, according to Brennan, Jobs "started to seed people with the notion that I slept around and he was infertile, which meant that this could not be his child". A few weeks before she was due, Brennan was invited to have her baby at the All One Farm in Oregon and Brennan accepted the offer.[1]

At the age of 23, Brennan gave birth to her daughter, Lisa Brennan, on May 17, 1978.[1][6] Jobs did not attend the birth. He eventually visited after he was contacted by Robert Friedland, their mutual friend and owner of the All One Farm. While distant, Jobs worked with Brennan on a name for the baby. She suggested the name "Lisa" and says that Jobs was very attached to the name "Lisa" while he "was also publicly denying paternity". She would discover later that Jobs was preparing to unveil a new kind of computer that he wanted to give a female name. She states that she never gave him permission to use the baby's name for a computer and he hid the plans from her. Jobs also worked with his team to come up with the phrase, "Local Integrated System Architecture" as an alternative explanation for the Apple Lisa[7] (decades later, however, Jobs admitted to his biographer Walter Isaacson that "obviously, it was named for my daughter"[8]).

Brennan explored adoption both before and after Lisa's birth but ultimately decided to become a single parent. Once, while staying with friends in the Bay Area, Jobs stopped by to see her. Brennan states that they went for a walk when Jobs said to her, "I am really sorry. I'll be back, this thing with Apple will be over when I'm about thirty. I am really, really sorry." Around the same time, she met with Kobun who distanced himself from her and did not fulfill his promise to help her once the baby was born.[1]

Brennan would come under intense criticism from Jobs, who claimed that "she doesn't want money, she just wants me". According to Brennan, Apple's Mike Scott wanted Jobs to give her money, while other Apple executives "advised him to ignore me or fight if I tried to go after a paternity settlement". Brennan also notes that later, after Jobs was forced out of Apple, "he apologized many times over for this behavior. He said that he never took responsibility when he should have and that he was sorry."[1] By this time, Jobs had developed a strong relationship with Lisa, who wanted her name changed and Jobs agreed. So he had her name on her birth certificate changed from Lisa Brennan to Lisa Brennan-Jobs.[9]

When Lisa was a baby and Jobs continued to deny paternity, a DNA paternity test confirmed that he was Lisa's father. He was required to give Brennan $385 a month and return the money she had received from welfare. Jobs gave her $500 a month at the time when Apple went public, and Jobs became a millionaire. Brennan worked as a waitress in Palo Alto. Later, Brennan agreed to give an interview with Michael Moritz for Time magazine. It would be for its 1982 Person of the Year special (released on January 3, 1983). She decided to be honest about her relationship with Jobs. The Time magazine issue had a lifelong impact on Brennan. Rather than give Jobs the "Person of the Year" award, Time offered the award of "Machine of the Year: The Computer Moves In".[10] In the issue, Jobs questioned the reliability of the paternity test (which stated that the "probability of paternity for Jobs, Steven ... is 94.1%").[11] Jobs responded by arguing that "28% of the male population of the United States could be the father".[1][11] Time also noted that "the baby girl and the machine on which Apple has placed so much hope for the future share the same name: Lisa".[11] After this issue, Brennan "didn't pay much attention to Steve's career again".[1]

Over the years, however, Brennan and Jobs developed a working relationship to co-parent Lisa, particularly after he was forced out of Apple. Brennan credits the change in him to the influence of his newly found biological sister, Mona Simpson, who worked to repair the relationship between Lisa and Jobs.[1]

According to Fortune, Brennan wrote a letter to Jobs in 2005, and another in 2009, in which she said she would abandon writing her memoirs if Jobs would supply her with financial compensation of US$28 million for the suffering she went through as a single mother.[12]

Painter

During the late 1980s, Brennan decided to finish her formal education and began to study at the California College of Arts and Crafts (where she was able to transfer her units from Foothill College).[2] She asked Jobs to pay her tuition. He agreed to this request and according to Brennan was quite happy to do so, as part of his developing relationship with Lisa. In 1989, she transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute.[1]

Brennan has lived in Monterey, California, while working as a professional painter.[1] She describes her art as "light encoded paintings" and works mostly on commission for either private or corporate parties.[2] She has also created murals for the Ronald McDonald House, Los Angeles County Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston,[13] and Packard Children's Hospital. Brennan stated that painting is "a language for me. Letters are form, and paintings are documents for information. When I mix those two, I'm happy. It gets me out of the normal way, which is what I want to do."[2]

Works

  • Brennan, Chrisann. The Bite in the Apple. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2013.
  • Brennan, Chrisann (October 27, 2011). "Jobs at 17: Nerd, Poet, Romantic". NYDailyNews India edition. first published in Rolling Stone. p. 42. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. The Brennan piece is a sidebar (scroll down the page) of the main article: "The Steve Jobs Nobody Knew".

Portrayals

Brennan was portrayed by Gema Zamprogna in Pirates of Silicon Valley, by Ahna O'Reilly in Jobs, and by Katherine Waterston in Steve Jobs.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Brennan, Chrisann. The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs. St. Martin's Griffin. p. ebook.
  2. ^ a b c d e Gulker, Linda (April 8, 2013). "Artist Chrisann Brennan describes her art as 'light encoded paintings'". InMenlo. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
  3. ^ Nakaso, Dan (October 29, 2013). "Steve Jobs' ex describes coping with the mercurial Apple genius". San Jose Mercury. Archived from the original on January 18, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d e Isaacson, Walter (2011). Steve Jobs. Simon & Schuster. p. ebook.
  5. ^ Edwards, Jim (December 26, 2013). "These Pictures Of Apple's First Employees Are Absolutely Wonderful". Business Insider. Archived from the original on July 31, 2020. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
  6. ^ Metz, Rachel (October 15, 2013). "Steve Jobs' ex-girlfriend pens memoir on life with 'vicious' Apple founder". The Guardian. Archived from the original on June 6, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
  7. ^ Bullock, Diane (August 31, 2010). "The Kids of Business Icons: Lisa Brennan-Jobs". Minyanville. Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  8. ^ Isaacson, Walter (2011). Steve Jobs. Simon & Schuster. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9.
  9. ^ "Fast-forward six years when Lisa was nine, after she and her father had grown to know and love each other ... It was in that window of time that Steve and Lisa decided to get her birth certificate straightened out. At nine, Lisa went from Lisa Brennan to Lisa Brennan-Jobs. Steve told me that he could hardly believe that she wanted to take his name. Very plainly relieved and honest, he said, 'I am just so happy that she does' ... William Fenwick of Fenwick & West was the lawyer Steve used to fact-check and change the birth certificate." In Brennan, Chrisann. The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs. St. Martin's Griffin. p. ebook.
  10. ^ "Machine of the Year: The Computer Moves in". Time, January 3, 1983.
  11. ^ a b c Cocks, Jay. Reported by Michael Moritz. "The Updated Book of Jobs" Archived February 9, 2015, at the Wayback Machine in "Machine of the Year: The Computer Moves in". Time, January 3, 1983: 27.
  12. ^ Peter Elkind (August 5, 2015). "When Steve Jobs' ex-girlfriend asked him to pay $25 million for his 'dishonorable behavior'". Fortune. Archived from the original on May 6, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2015. In his estate, Jobs left their daughter a multi-million-dollar inheritance, which Lisa has used to help support her, according to Brennan.
  13. ^ Traugott, Elisabeth (August 15, 1997). "Spotlight: Chrisann Brennan: The painting on the wall". Palo Alto Weekly. Archived from the original on October 18, 2015. Retrieved January 25, 2015.

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