Malcolm Gladwell (born September 1, 1963) is a United Kingdom-born, Canadian-raised journalist now based in New York City who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of the books The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000) and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005).
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Life
Gladwell's English father is a civil engineering professor at the University of Waterloo; his mother is a Jamaican-born psychotherapist. Though born in the United Kingdom, he was raised in Elmira, Ontario, and graduated with a degree in history from the University of Toronto's Trinity College in 1984. From 1987 to 1996, he was a science writer, and later the New York bureau chief, for the Washington Post. He is currently a staff writer for The New Yorker. In 2005, Time Magazine named Malcolm Gladwell one of its 100 Most Influential People, and he is the author of two New York Times #1 best sellers. In 2007, he received the American Sociological Association’s first Award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues.
Works
Gladwell's books and articles often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences and make frequent and extended use of academic work, particularly in the areas of sociology, psychology, and social psychology. Gladwell's first work, The Tipping Point, discusses the potentially massive implications of small-scale social events, while his second book, Blink, explains how the human subconscious interprets events or cues and how past experiences allow people to make informed decisions very rapidly.
Articles
- "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg"
- "The Sports Taboo - Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls"
Bibliography
- Gladwell, Malcolm (2000). The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-31696-2.
- Gladwell, Malcolm (2005). Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-17232-4.
External links
- Gladwell's website
- Gladwell's blog
- "The Gladwell Effect", The New York Times, February 5, 2006.
- "Interview with Malcolm Gladwell" - Failure Magazine, April 2001.
- Malcolm Gladwell's 18 min Talk at TED Conference (2004) Monterey, CA
- Gladwell's talk “2012: Stories from the Near Future,” at the 2007 New Yorker Conference
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| NAME | Gladwell, Malcolm |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Journalist and science writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United Kingdom |
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