Apple co-founder Steve Jobs used the last interview before his death to explain to his children why "I wasn't always there for them", it was revealed today。

Stricken with terminal cancer and too ill to climb stairs the 56-year-old, whose death was announced on Wednesday, wanted to ensure that his biography was ultimately a love letter to his family。

"I wanted my kids to know me", he told Pulitzer Prize nominee and author Walter Isaacson, when asked why he agreed to a tell-all book despite living a famously private life。

"I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did", he added poignantly at his home in Palo Alto, California。

On that final visit last month Isaacson found Jobs coiled up in pain in a downstairs bedroom where he had moved to avoid going up and down stairs, "but his mind was still sharp and his humour vibrant", Isaacson said today。

He is survived by his wife Laurene Powell Jobs and their three children Eve, Erin and Reed but he also fathered a love child with his high school sweetheart Chrisann Brennan。

Lisa Brennan-Jobs, 33, was only accepted by her father two years later after a court-ordered blood test proved she was his。

Ms Brennan-Jobs has made a living for herself, after graduating from Harvard University, as a journalist and writer。

The biography, simply titled Steve Jobs, was at the top of the best-seller lists within hours of Apple's announcement of his death。

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