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Author, journalist, cultural commentator and intellectual
adventurer, Malcolm Gladwell was born in 1963 in England to a
Jamaican mother and an English mathematician father. He grew
up in Canada and graduated with a degree in history from the
University of Toronto in 1984. From 1987 to 1996, he was a
reporter for the Washington Post, first as a science writer and
then as New York City bureau chief. Since 1996, he has been a
staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. His curiosity and
breadth of interests are shown in New Yorker articles ranging
over a wide array of subjects including early childhood
development and the flu, not to mention hair dye, shopping and
what it takes to be cool. His phenomenal bestseller The Tipping
Point captured the world’s attention with its theory that a
curiously small change can have unforeseen effects, and the
phrase has become part of our language, used by writers,
politicians and business people everywhere to describe cultural
trends and strange phenomena.