Malcolm Gladwell
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Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is an American-based journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He is best known as the author of the bestseller The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.
Gladwell, whose mother is Jamaican, was born in England. He was raised in Canada, and graduated with a degree in history from the University of Toronto in 1984. From 1987 to 1996, he was a science writer, and later the New York bureau chief, for the Washington Post. Gladwell currently lives in New York City.
In 2005, Gladwell published his second book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. His writing often deals with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences, particularly sociology and psychology.
See also
Articles
- "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg (http://www.gladwell.com/1999/1999_01_11_a_weisberg.htm)"
- "The Sports Taboo - Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls (http://www.gladwell.com/1997/1997_05_19_a_sports.htm)"
Books
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Little, Brown: 2005) ISBN 0316172324
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Little, Brown: 2002) ISBN 0316346624
External links
- Official website (http://www.gladwell.com)
- ESPN interview (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=merron/050203)