Malcolm+Gladwell



Malcolm Gladwell was born in England to a Jamaican psychotherapist and a British Mathematician, giving him a very diverse cultural and intellectual background. After a failed attempt of going into advertising, Gladwell landed a journalism position at //The American Spectator//. In 1987 Gladwell began to cover science and business at //The Washington Post// until 1996. In 1996 Gladwell began writing for the //New Yorker//; his first two articles "The Tipping Point" and "The Coolhunt" were very popular and served as a basis for The Tipping Point.

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Besides __The Tipping Point__, Gladwell has written 3 other books: __Blink: the Power of Thinking Without Thinking__, __Outliers: The Story of Success__, and __What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures.__ Gladwell's books have been immensely popular. Outliers was named a #1 New York Times Bestseller for 11 consecutive weeks and was named Time Magazine's 10th best nonfiction book of 2008. Blink was an international bestseller and sold of 2 million copies. Some opposing critics claim that the fact that Gladwell is a journalist rather than an academic reflects in his work and that he tends to overuse anecdotal evidence as opposed to research to support his conclusions.