Malcolm Gladwell was born in September 3, 1963. He is a Canadian journalist, author, and pop sociologist.
Biography and Career
Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, author, and pop sociologist based in New York City. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He is best known for his books.
His British father, Graham M. Gladwell, was a civil engineering professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada; his mother, Joyce E. is a Jamaican born psychotherapist.
According to research done by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Harvard University, in 2010 for the PBS series Faces of America, his family tree includes ancestors of West Indian, English, Jewish, Irish and Scottish heritage.
At The American Spectator he began his career
. Malcom subsequently wrote for Insight on the News, a conservative magazine owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, before joining The Washington Post as a business writer.
He later served as a science writer and as New York bureau chief for the Post before leaving the paper in 1996. He is currently a staff writer for The New Yorker. His books, The Tipping Point and Blink were bestsellers.
Gladwell's first book, The Tipping Point explains the potentially massive implications of small scale social events. His second book, Blink is all about how the human subconscious interprets events or cues and how past experiences allow people to make informed decisions very rapidly.
Time named Malcolm Gladwell one of its 100 most influential people in 2005. In 2007, he received the American Sociological Association's first Award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues. Also in 2007 the University of Waterloo awarded him an honorary degree, Doctor of Letters.
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Birth Name: Malcolm T. Gladwell
Birth: September 3, 1963
Why do we like Malcolm Gladwell?
We like him because of his work as a journalist, author, and pop sociologist.
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He is famous because of his talent as an author, journalist and pop sociologist.
Malcolm Gladwell was born in September 3, 1963. He is a Canadian journalist, author, and pop sociologist.
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