[1] Her father worked for Sylvania and the family lived in a number of places including Colorado Springs and Nebraska.

Brennan attended Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, where she met Steve Jobs during the early months of 1972.

[1] After Brennan graduated from high school, she went to visit Jobs at the All One Farm, a commune in Oregon.

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.

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] 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 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 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.

In 1977 Brennan, Daniel Kottke, and Jobs moved into a house near the Apple office in Cupertino.

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.

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".

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.

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".

She would discover later that Jobs was preparing to unveil a new kind of computer that he wanted to give a female name.

Brennan explored adoption both before and after Lisa's birth but ultimately decided to become a single parent.

[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".

[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] She describes her art as "light encoded paintings" and works mostly on commission for either private or corporate parties.