By Megan McDonald
Sarasota Magazine
You’ve probably heard Walter Isaacson’s name before: He’s a former TIME magazine editor, the former chairman and CEO of CNN, a member of the board of directors of Teach for America and the current president and CEO of The Aspen Institute, a think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. He’s also a prolific writer: He’s penned biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Kissinger and—most recently, and to much buzz—Steve Jobs, the late co-founder and CEO of Apple.
Isaacson will be in Sarasota next Tuesday as part of the Ringling College Library Association’s Town Hall series, where he’ll discuss the lessons in creativity and imagination he’s learned from the people he’s written about. Pre-lecture, he spoke with us via phone about his writing, his nonprofit work and, of course, Steve Jobs.
