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[3] [6] Jobs' biological father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, was a student from an elite family in Homs who met Jobs' mother, Joanne Schieble, while pursuing a PhD at the University of Wisconsin. He was adopted a few months after his birth by a couple from California. According to Isaacson, Jobs had little interest in his Syrian heritage.
The Lost Father is an autobiographical fiction novel written by American novelist Mona Simpson. It is the sequel to Simpson's first novel, Anywhere But Here, and based on her real search for her father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali. It also contains a fictionalized portrait of her mother, Joanne Carole Schieble.
Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali (Arabic: عبد الفتاح الجندلي). Abdulfattah Jandali was born in a Muslim household to wealthy Syrian parents, the youngest of nine siblings.
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Mona Simpson (née Jandali; June 14, 1957) [1] [2] is an American novelist. She has written six novels and studied English at University of California, Berkeley, and languages and literature at Columbia University. [3] [4] She won a Whiting Award for her first novel, Anywhere but Here (1986).
Ever since its early colonial days, when some Protestant dissenter English and German settlers moved in search of religious freedom, America has been profoundly influenced by religion. [37] Throughout its history, religious involvement among American citizens has grown since 1776 from 17% of the US population to 62% in 2000. [38]