Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He was born in England to Joyce Gladwell, a Jamaican psychotherapist, and Graham Gladwell, an English mathematics professor. Gladwell’s family relocated to Ontario, Canada, when he was six. He studied at the University of Toronto and graduated in 1984, after which he took a job writing for conservative magazine The American Spectator. Gladwell moved to the Washington Post in 1987, where he covered business and science. In 1996, he took a job at the New Yorker and has worked there ever since. At the New Yorker, Gladwell honed his quintessential writing style of adapting complex research to be easily digestible and entertaining for the average reader. Two of Gladwell’s early New Yorker articles, “The Tipping Point” and “The Coolhunt,” both written in 1996, would become the basis for his first book, The Tipping Point. Published in 2000, The Tipping Point saw enormous success and secured Gladwell’s status as an in-demand public speaker. Gladwell’s other successful books include Blink (2005) and Outliers (2008). In addition to his continued work at the New Yorker, Gladwell is the host of the podcast Revisionist History, which began in 2016 and has published six seasons to date.