Malcolm Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is an American journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He is best known as the author of the bestseller The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.

Gladwell, whose mother is Jamaican, was born in England. He was raised in Canada, 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. Gladwell currently lives in New York City.

In 2005, Gladwell published his second book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. His writing often deals with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences, particularly sociology and psychology.

See also

• Small world phenomenon

Articles

• "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg"
• "The Sports Taboo - Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls"

Books

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Little, Brown: 2005) ISBN 0316172324
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Little, Brown: 2002) ISBN 0316346624

External links

• Official website
• ESPN interview