Jim Henson: The Biography

Short review: This is a comprehensive, but fairly light biography of Jim Henson. It has many of the same strengths and weaknesses of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs. It is as much about the company and work as it is about Henson as a man. It relies heavily on interviews, it gets too detailed about relatively minor creative decisions but doesn't get detailed enough around personality issues. That being said, I did really like it and I did enjoy putting Henson in context of how TV (and to a lesser extent film) changed because of his work on it.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/jim-henson/