What was the name of Steve Jobs’s mother, who gave him up for adoption?

Steve Jobs’s biological mother was Joanne Schieble, who gave him up for adoption.

Jobs was born to Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali in San Francisco in 1955. Because Schieble’s parents opposed the relationship, the couple arranged for the baby to be adopted. He was raised by Paul and Clara Jobs, whom he regarded as his parents.

Schieble later married Jandali, and they had another child, the novelist Mona Simpson. Jobs eventually met Simpson as an adult and developed a relationship with her. His early family history therefore connects directly to both his adoption and his later discovery of a biological sister.

The names are easy to confuse: Clara Jobs was his adoptive mother, while Joanne Schieble was his biological mother. Laurene Powell Jobs was his wife, and Mona Simpson was his biological sister, not his mother.