传记作品贵在非虚构性。一般而言,从资料的可靠性来讲,对一件事、一个人的记载,年份越近的资料越具有可靠性。但对于传记作者而言,当传记人物具有巨大社会影响力、传记事件牵涉众多当事人且当事人也个个不同凡响时,传记的写作将变得格外艰难。对每个人物的评价、对每个事件的定性,可能都会陷于无法言说的立场摇摆、利益考量纠结之中。可贵的是,这些难题并没有出现在《史蒂夫·乔布斯传》(中信出版社2014年3月出版) Biographies are not fictional. In general, from the reliability of the data, the more reliable the information about one thing and one person, the closer the year is. But for biographers, biographical writing becomes more difficult when the biographers have enormous social influence, biographical events involve many parties, and the parties are all different. The evaluation of each person, the nature of each event, may be caught in unspeakable position swing, interest considerations entangled. Valuable is that these problems did not appear in the “Steve Jobs Biography” (CITIC Publishing House published in March 2014)