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Malcolm Gladwell
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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 known as 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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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 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.
His writing often deals with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences, particularly sociology and psychology. His books and articles make frequent and extended use of academic work, particularly in the area of social psychology. Gladwell's first work The Tipping Point discusses "how little things can make a big difference," explaining the nature of the human psyche and how past experiences add up.
- Small world phenomenon
- Tipping point
- Connectors
- Epidemiology
- Decision theory
- Social networks
- Sociology
- Broken Windows
- "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg"
- "The Sports Taboo - Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls"
- 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.
- Gladwell's website
- Gladwell's blog
- The New Yorker
- "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
- Malcolm Gladwell speaks at the Oxonian Society video
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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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