Characters from Outliers: The Story of Success

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Chris Langan - This character is an extremely intelligent man.

Joe Flom - This character is from a Jewish family who lives in Brooklyn during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

Bill Joy - A pioneer in computer software development and one of the founders of SunMicroSystems.

Bill Gates - The founder of Microsoft.

The Beatles - A wildly popular British pop band in the 1960s.

Lewis Terman - A social scientist who develops a standard intelligence test.

Suren Ratwatte - An airline pilot and an expert on human behavior.

Geert Hofstede -...
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