Malcolm Gladwell

{{Short description|Canadian journalist and science writer (born 1963)}}
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| image              = Malcolm Gladwell, 2008 (cropped).jpg
| alt                = Malcolm Gladwell
| caption            = Gladwell in 2008
| honorific_suffix   = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|size=100%}}
| birth_name         = Malcolm Timothy Gladwell
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1963|9|3|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Fareham]], England
| nationality        = Canadian
| relatives          = [[Colin Powell]] (distant cousin)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Outliers |pages=281}}</ref>
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| occupation         = Non-fiction writer, journalist, public speaker
| years_active       = 1987–present
| education          = [[University of Toronto]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| notable_works      = {{unbulleted list|''[[The Tipping Point]]'' (2000)|''[[Blink (book)|Blink]]'' (2005)|''[[Outliers (book)|Outliers]]'' (2008)|''[[What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures|What the Dog Saw]]'' (2009)|''[[David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants|David and Goliath]]'' (2013)|''[[Talking to Strangers]]'' (2019)|''[[The Bomber Mafia]]'' (2021)|''[[Revisionist History (podcast)|Revisionist History]]'' (podcast; 2016–present)}}
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'''Malcolm Timothy Gladwell''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} (born 3 September 1963) is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=17 January 2009|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/3703795/Outliers-by-Malcolm-Gladwell---review.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081215124707/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/3703795/Outliers-by-Malcolm-Gladwell---review.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 December 2008|title=Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell – review|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=17 December 2008|author=Colville, Robert|location=London}}</ref> He has been a [[staff writer]] for ''[[The New Yorker]]'' since 1996. He has published seven books. He is also the host of the podcast ''[[Revisionist History (podcast)|Revisionist History]]'' and co-founder of the podcast company [[Pushkin Industries]].

Gladwell's writings often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences, such as [[sociology]] and [[psychology]], and make frequent and extended use of academic work. Gladwell was appointed to the [[Order of Canada]] in 2011.<ref name=":0">[http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=14175&lan=eng "Governor General Announces 50 New Appointments to the Order of Canada"], The Governor General of Canada, 30 June 2011.</ref>

==Early life and education==
Gladwell was born in [[Fareham]], [[Hampshire]], England. His mother Joyce (née Nation) Gladwell, is a [[Jamaicans|Jamaican]] [[psychotherapist]]. His father, Graham Gladwell, was a mathematics professor from [[Kent]], England.<ref name=guardiantheman>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/nov/16/malcolm-gladwell-interview-outliers|location=London, UK|work=The Guardian|title=The man who can't stop thinking|first=Tim|last=Adams|date=16 November 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts|first=Henry Louis Jr.|last=Gates|author-link=Henry Louis Gates, Jr|page=178|publisher=NYU Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-8147-3264-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=meYbj1E6Ki8C&pg=PA178}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20170318.93386279/BDAStory/BDA/deaths|location=Toronto|work=The Globe and Mail|title=Gladwell, Graham|date=18 March 2017|access-date=27 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327080645/http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20170318.93386279/BDAStory/BDA/deaths|archive-date=27 March 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> When he was six his family moved from [[Southampton]] to the Mennonite community of [[Elmira, Ontario]], Canada.<ref name=guardiantheman/> He has two brothers.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Gladwell|first=Malcolm|date=January–February 2014|title=How I Rediscovered Faith|url=https://relevantmagazine.com/life5/malcolm-gladwell-how-i-rediscovered-faith/|magazine=[[Relevant (magazine)|Relevant]]|issue=67|access-date=22 April 2022}}</ref> Throughout his childhood, Malcolm lived in rural [[Ontario]] [[Mennonite]] country, where he attended a Mennonite church.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/middleground/gladwell.htm|title=Lost in the Middle|newspaper=The Washington Post|first=Malcolm|last=Gladwell|date=17 May 1998|access-date=30 November 2017}}</ref><ref name="Author Malcolm Gladwell finds his faith again">{{cite news|title=Author Malcolm Gladwell finds his faith again|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/author-malcolm-gladwell-finds-his-faith-again/2013/10/11/d633d8f4-3266-11e3-89ae-16e186e117d8_story.html|last=Bailey|first=Sarah Pulliam|date=11 October 2013|access-date=24 February 2021}}</ref> Research done by historian [[Henry Louis Gates Jr.]] revealed that one of Gladwell's maternal ancestors was a Jamaican [[free people of color|free woman of colour]] (mixed black and white) who was a slaveowner.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.chronicle.com/article/Henry-Louis-Gatess-Extended/64192 |title=Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Extended Family |last=Nelson |first=Alondra |author-link=Alondra Nelson |date=10 February 2012 |newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education}}</ref> His great-great-great-grandmother was of [[Igbo people|Igbo]] ethnicity from Nigeria, West Africa.
In the epilogue of his 2008 book [[Outliers (book)|''Outliers'']] he describes many lucky circumstances that came to his family over the course of several generations, contributing to his path towards success.<ref>''Outliers'' p. 270</ref> Gladwell has said that his mother is his role model as a writer.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=17 January 2009|url=http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/510|title=A conversation with Malcolm Gladwell|work=[[Charlie Rose (TV show)|Charlie Rose]]|date=19 December 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201202630/http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/510|archive-date=1 February 2009}}</ref>

Gladwell's father noted that Malcolm was an unusually single-minded and ambitious boy.<ref name=telegraph>Preston, John (26 October 2009). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/6416229/Malcolm-Gladwell-interview.html Malcolm Gladwell Interview]. ''The Telegraph''.</ref> When Malcolm was 11, his father, a professor of mathematics and engineering at the [[University of Waterloo]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Graham M. L. Gladwell profile|url=http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/our_people/dept_person.asp?id=gladwell|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111204130118/http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/our_people/dept_person.asp?id=gladwell|archive-date=4 December 2011}}</ref>, allowed his son to wander around the offices at his university, which stoked the boy's interest in reading and libraries.<ref name=timeoutliers>Grossman, Lev (13 November 2008). [https://web.archive.org/web/20081121174157/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1858880,00.html "''Outliers'': Malcolm Gladwell's Success Story"], ''Time''.</ref> In the spring of 1982, Gladwell interned with the [[National Journalism Center]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite web|access-date=17 October 2009|url=http://www.yaf.org/njcalumnibooks.aspx|title=Books and Articles by NJC Alumni|publisher=[[Young America's Foundation]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091102034146/http://www.yaf.org/NJCAlumniBooks.aspx|archive-date=2 November 2009}}</ref> He graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from [[Trinity College, Toronto|Trinity College]] of the [[University of Toronto]], in 1984.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/profiles/malcolm-gladwell/9|title= Biography: Malcolm Gladwell (journalist)|date=2014|website=Faces of America, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.|publisher=Public Broadcasting System|access-date=20 November 2014}}</ref>

== Career ==
Gladwell's grades were not high enough for [[graduate school]], so he decided to pursue advertising as a career.<ref name=timeoutliers/><ref name=nyt>{{cite news |access-date = 17 January 2009 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/books/review/05donadio.html |title = The Gladwell Effect |work = The New York Times |date = 5 February 2006 |author = Donadio, Rachel }}</ref> After being rejected by every advertising agency he applied to, he accepted a journalism position at conservative magazine ''[[The American Spectator]]'' and moved to [[Indiana]].<ref name="IanSample"/> He subsequently wrote for ''[[Insight on the News]]'', a conservative magazine owned by [[Sun Myung Moon]]'s [[Unification Church]].<ref name="Shafer">{{cite magazine |access-date = 28 December 2009 |last = Shafer |first = Jack |title = The Fibbing Point |magazine = Slate |date = 19 March 2008 |url = http://www.slate.com/id/2186982/ }}</ref> In 1987, Gladwell began covering business and science for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', where he worked until 1996.<ref name=cooper>[http://cooper.edu/news-events/news/malcolm-gladwell-will-be-the-cooper-union-s-152nd-commencement-speaker/ Malcolm Gladwell will be The Cooper Union's 152nd Commencement Speaker]. ''The Cooper Union''. 22 March 2011. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805101015/http://cooper.edu/news-events/news/malcolm-gladwell-will-be-the-cooper-union-s-152nd-commencement-speaker/ |date=5 August 2011 }}</ref> In a personal elucidation of the 10,000-hour rule he popularized in ''[[Outliers (book)|Outliers]]'', Gladwell notes, "I was a basket case at the beginning, and I felt like an expert at the end. It took 10 years—exactly that long."<ref name=timeoutliers/>

When Gladwell started at ''[[The New Yorker]]'' in 1996, he wanted to "mine current academic research for insights, theories, direction, or inspiration".<ref name=telegraph/> His first assignment was to write a piece about fashion. Instead of writing about high-class fashion, Gladwell opted to write a piece about a man who manufactured T-shirts, saying: "[I]t was much more interesting to write a piece about someone who made a T-shirt for $8 than it was to write about a dress that costs $100,000. I mean, you or I could make a dress for $100,000, but to make a T-shirt for $8—that's much tougher."<ref name=telegraph/>

Gladwell gained popularity with two ''New Yorker'' articles, both written in 1996: "The Tipping Point" and "The Coolhunt".<ref>[http://gladwell.com/the-coolhunt "The Coolhunt"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907180439/http://gladwell.com/the-coolhunt/ |date=7 September 2015 }}, gladwell.com; accessed 17 January 2016.</ref><ref name=Salon/> These two pieces would become the basis for Gladwell's first book, ''The Tipping Point'', for which he received a $1 million advance.<ref name=nyt/><ref name=Salon>{{cite news|access-date=17 January 2009|url=http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2000/03/17/gladwell/index.html|title=Idea epidemics|work=Salon.com|date=17 March 2000|author=McNett, Gavin|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125042416/http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2000/03/17/gladwell/index.html|archive-date=25 January 2009}}</ref> He continues to write for ''The New Yorker''. Gladwell also served as a contributing editor for ''[[Grantland]]'', a sports journalism website founded by former [[ESPN]] columnist [[Bill Simmons]].

In a July 2002 article in ''The New Yorker'', Gladwell introduced the concept of the "talent myth" that companies and organizations, in his view, incorrectly follow.<ref name=myth>{{cite magazine| last =Gladwell| first =Malcolm| title =The Talent Myth| magazine =The New Yorker| date =22 July 2002| url =https://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/07/22/020722fa_fact}}</ref> This work examines different managerial and administrative techniques that companies, both winners and losers, have used. He states that the misconception seems to be that management and executives are all too ready to classify employees without ample performance records and thus make hasty decisions. Many companies believe in disproportionately rewarding "stars" over other employees with bonuses and promotions. However, with the quick rise of inexperienced workers with little in-depth performance review, promotions are often incorrectly made, putting employees into positions they should not have and keeping other, more experienced employees from rising. He also points out that under this system, narcissistic personality types are more likely to climb the ladder, since they are more likely to take more credit for achievements and take less blame for failure.<ref name=myth/> He states both that narcissists make the worst managers and that the system of rewarding "stars" eventually worsens a company's position. Gladwell states that the most successful long-term companies are those who reward experience above all else and require greater time for promotions.<ref name=myth/>

== Works ==
With the release of ''[[The Bomber Mafia|The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War]]'' in April 2021, Gladwell has had seven books published. When asked for the process behind his writing, he said: "I have two parallel things I'm interested in. One is, I'm interested in collecting interesting stories, and the other is I'm interested in collecting interesting research. What I'm looking for is cases where they overlap".<ref name=aps>Jaffe, Eric. [http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1954 "Malcolm in the Middle"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322224304/http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1954 |date=22 March 2012 }}, psychologicalscience.org, March 2006.</ref>

===''The Tipping Point''===
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The initial inspiration for his first book, ''The Tipping Point'', which was published in 2000, came from the sudden drop of crime in [[New York City]]. He wanted the book to have a broader appeal than just crime, however, and sought to explain similar phenomena through the lens of [[epidemiology]]. While Gladwell was a reporter for ''The Washington Post'', he covered the [[AIDS]] epidemic. He began to take note of "how strange epidemics were", saying epidemiologists have a "strikingly different way of looking at the world". The term "[[Tipping point (sociology)#Other uses|tipping point]]" comes from the moment in an epidemic when the virus reaches [[critical mass]] and begins to spread at a much higher rate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/interviews/ba2000-03-29.htm|title=Interview {{!}} ''Epidemic'' Proportions|date=29 March 2000|first=Toby|last= Lester|website=www.theatlantic.com|access-date=6 July 2018}}</ref>

Gladwell's theories of crime were heavily influenced by the "[[broken windows theory]]" of policing, and Gladwell is credited for packaging and popularizing the theory in a way that was implementable in New York City. Gladwell's theoretical implementation bears a striking resemblance to the "[[Stop-and-frisk in New York City|stop-and-frisk]]" policies of the NYPD.<ref name="Smithsonian">{{cite web |url = http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sorry-malcolm-gladwell-nycs-drop-in-crime-not-due-to-broken-window-theory-12636297/?no-ist|title = Sorry, Malcolm Gladwell: NYC's Drop in Crime Not Due to Broken Window Theory|date = 6 February 2013|access-date = 10 April 2015|last = Nuwer|first = Rachel|author-link = Rachel Nuwer|website = [[The Smithsonian Magazine]]}}</ref> However, in the decade and a half since its publication, ''The Tipping Point'' and Gladwell have both come under fire for the tenuous link between "broken windows" and New York City's drop in violent crime. During a 2013 interview with [[BBC]] journalist [[Jon Ronson]] for ''[[The Culture Show]]'', Gladwell admitted that he was "too in love with the broken-windows notion". He went on to say that he was "so enamored by the metaphorical simplicity of that idea that I overstated its importance".<ref name="PubliclyShamed">{{cite book | title=So You've Been Publicly Shamed | publisher=Pan MacMillan |author=Ronson, Jon |year=2015 | pages=160–162 | isbn=978-1-59448-713-2}}</ref>

===''Blink''===
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After ''The Tipping Point,'' Gladwell published ''Blink'' in 2005. The book explains how the human [[Unconscious mind|unconscious]] interprets events or cues as well as how past experiences can lead people to make informed decisions very rapidly. Gladwell uses examples like the [[Getty kouros]] and psychologist [[John Gottman]]'s research on the likelihood of [[divorce]] in [[Marriage|married couples]]. Gladwell's hair was the inspiration for ''Blink''. He stated that once he allowed his hair to get longer, he started to get speeding tickets all the time, an oddity considering that he had never gotten one before and that he started getting pulled out of airport security lines for special attention.<ref name=Independent>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/malcolm-gladwell-a-good-hair-day-470479.html|title=Malcolm Gladwell: A good hair day|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|first=Johnny|last=Davis|date=19 March 2006|access-date=6 July 2018|language=en-GB}}</ref> In a particular incident, he was apprehended by three police officers while walking in downtown Manhattan because his curly hair matched the profile of a rapist, despite the fact the suspect looked nothing like him otherwise.<ref name=Independent />

Gladwell's ''The Tipping Point'' (2000) and ''Blink'' (2005) were international bestsellers. ''The Tipping Point'' sold more than two million copies in the United States. ''Blink'' sold equally well.<ref name=nyt/><ref>{{cite news |title = Gladwell: I was an outsider many times over |url = http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6436694.ece |newspaper = [[Times Online]] |date = June 2009 |first = Jenny |last = Booth }} {{subscription required}}</ref> As of November 2008, the two books had sold a combined 4.5 million copies.<ref name=timeoutliers/>

===''Outliers''===
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Gladwell's third book, ''Outliers'', published in 2008, examines how a person's environment, in conjunction with personal drive and motivation, affects his or her possibility and opportunity for success. Gladwell's original question revolved around lawyers: "We take it for granted that there's this guy in New York who's the corporate lawyer, right? I just was curious: Why is it all the same guy?", referring to the fact that "a surprising number of the most powerful and successful corporate lawyers in New York City have almost the exact same biography".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Q and A with Malcolm |url=http://gladwell.com/outliers/outliers-q-and-a-with-malcolm/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110154713/http://gladwell.com/outliers/outliers-q-and-a-with-malcolm/ |archive-date=10 November 2017 |access-date=14 April 2021 |website=Gladwell.com }}</ref><ref name=timeoutliers/> In another example given in the book, Gladwell noticed that people ascribe [[Bill Gates]]'s success to being "really smart" or "really ambitious". He noted that he knew a lot of people who are really smart and really ambitious, but not worth $60 billion. "It struck me that our understanding of success was really crude—and there was an opportunity to dig down and come up with a better set of explanations."

===''What the Dog Saw''===
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Gladwell's fourth book, ''What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures'', was published in 2009. ''What the Dog Saw'' bundles together Gladwell's favourites of his articles from ''[[The New Yorker]]'' since he joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1996.<ref name="IanSample">{{cite news|last=Sample|first=Ian|title=What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell|work=The Guardian|date=17 October 2009|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/17/what-the-dog-saw-gladwell-review|access-date=27 October 2009|location=London}}</ref> The stories share a common theme, namely that Gladwell tries to show us the world through the eyes of others, even if that other happens to be a dog.<ref name=nytimes>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.html|title=Book Review – 'What the Dog Saw – And Other Adventures', by Malcolm Gladwell|last=Pinker|first=Steven|date=7 November 2009|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name=latimes>Reynolds, Susan Salter (22 November 2009), [https://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/22/entertainment/la-ca-malcolm-gladwell22-2009nov22 "'What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures' by Malcolm Gladwell – The New Yorker writer's sense of curiosity burns bright in this collection of essays"], ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref>

===''David and Goliath''===
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Gladwell's fifth book, ''David and Goliath'', was released in October 2013, and examines the struggle of underdogs versus favourites. The book is partially inspired by an article Gladwell wrote for ''The New Yorker'' in 2009 entitled "How David Beats Goliath".<ref>{{cite web|first=Malcolm|last= Gladwell|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/05/11/how-david-beats-goliath |title=How David Beats Goliath|website= newyorker.com|date= 4 May 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/books/2012/07/malcolm-gladwells-book-about-underdogs.html|title=Malcolm Gladwell's book about underdogs|publisher=Cbc.ca|date=11 July 2012|access-date=9 July 2013|archive-date=4 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004223356/http://www.cbc.ca/books/2012/07/malcolm-gladwells-book-about-underdogs.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The book was a bestseller but received mixed reviews.<ref>Maslin, Janet (4 October 2013). "[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/david-and-goliath-by-malcolm-gladwell.html Finding Talking Points Among the Underdogs]", ''The New York Times''.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8042fae0-2a7f-11e3-8fb8-00144feab7de.html|title='David and Goliath' by Malcolm Gladwell|first=Lucy|last=Kellaway|work=Financial Times|date=4 October 2013}} {{subscription required}}</ref><ref>Junod, Tom (25 November 2013). "[http://www.esquire.com/fiction/books/malcolm-gladwell-1213 Malcolm Gladwell Runs Out of Tricks]", ''Esquire''.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-29/gladwell-tells-us-stuff-only-dummies-don-t-know-books|title=Gladwell Tells Us Stuff Only Dummies Don't Know: Books|work=Bloomberg|date=29 September 2013|first=Craig|last=Seligman}} {{subscription required}}</ref>

===''Talking to Strangers''===
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Gladwell's sixth book, ''Talking to Strangers'', was released September 2019. The book examines interactions with strangers, covers examples that include the deceptions of [[Bernie Madoff]], the trial of [[Amanda Knox]], the suicide of [[Sylvia Plath]], the [[Jerry Sandusky]] pedophilia case at [[Penn State]], and the death of [[Sandra Bland]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/new-malcolm-gladwell-book-titled-talking-to-strangers-coming-in-september-1.5007696|title=New Malcolm Gladwell book, titled Talking to Strangers, coming in September|last=Balser|first=Erin|date=6 February 2019|website=CBC Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Sean|last1=O'Hagan|access-date=1 September 2019|title=Malcolm Gladwell: 'I'm just trying to get people to take psychology seriously'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/01/malcolm-gladwell-interview-talking-to-strangers-apolitical|newspaper=The Guardian|date=1 September 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Amy|last1=Chozick|access-date=1 September 2019|title=With 'Talking to Strangers,' Malcolm Gladwell Goes Dark   | via=Cengage   |  archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217213720/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/business/malcolm-gladwell-talking-to-strangers.html  |  archive-date=17 December 2019    |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/business/malcolm-gladwell-talking-to-strangers.html|newspaper=The New York Times|  date=1 September 2019 |  page=1L   |  orig-date=30 August 2019|issn=0362-4331 |  id={{Gale|A598281962}}}}</ref> Gladwell explained what inspired him to write the book as being "struck by how many high profile cases in the news were about the same thing—strangers misunderstanding each other."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/full-episode-jan-4-2020-1.5410673/why-malcolm-gladwell-believes-humans-are-terrible-at-detecting-lies-and-why-we-all-need-to-get-better-at-it-1.5410826|title=Why Malcolm Gladwell believes humans are terrible at detecting lies – and why we all need to get better at it|last=Rogers|first=Shelagh|date=3 January 2020|work=CBC|access-date=30 January 2020}}</ref> It challenges the assumptions we are programmed to make when encountering strangers, and the potentially dangerous consequences of misreading people we do not know.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/307823/talking-to-strangers/9780241351567.html|title=Talking to Strangers|last=Gladwell|first=Malcolm|website=www.penguin.co.uk|language=en|access-date=5 September 2019|archive-date=5 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905131203/https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/307823/talking-to-strangers/9780241351567.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===''The Bomber Mafia''===
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Gladwell's seventh book, ''[[The Bomber Mafia|The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War]]'', was released in April 2021. The book weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.<ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 978-0316296618|title = The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War|last1 = Gladwell|first1 = Malcolm|year=2021| publisher=Little, Brown }}</ref>

==Reception==
''The Tipping Point'' was named as one of the best books of the decade by ''[[The A.V. Club]]'', ''[[The Guardian]]'', and ''[[The Times]]''.<ref>[https://www.avclub.com/articles/the-best-books-of-the-00s,35774/ "The best books of the '00s"], ''The A.V. Club'', 25 November 2009.</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/dec/05/books-of-the-noughties "What we were reading"], ''The Guardian'', 5 December 2009.</ref><ref>[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article6914181.ece?print=yes The 100 Best Books of the Decade]. ''[[The Times]]'', 14 November 2009.</ref> It was also [[Barnes & Noble]]'s fifth-best-selling non-fiction book of the decade.<ref>[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/bestsellers-nonfiction-books-decade/379002050/ Bestsellers of the Decade – Nonfiction]. Barnes & Noble.</ref> ''Blink'' was named to ''[[Fast Company]]''{{'s}} list of the best business books of 2005.<ref>[http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/david-lidsky/technology-innovation/fast-companys-best-books-2005 Fast Company's Best Books of 2005]. ''Fast Company''. 5 January 2008.</ref> It was also number 5 on Amazon customers' favourite books of 2005, named to ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]''{{'s}} best non-fiction books of 2005, and in the top 50 of Amazon customers' favourite books of the decade.<ref name=amazonbest>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=577695&plpage=2 Best of the Decade... So Far: Top 50 Customers' Favorites]. Amazon.com.</ref><ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1129/p12s02-bogn.html "Best nonfiction 2005"]. ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]''. 29 November 2005.</ref><ref>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&docId=593614 Best Books of 2005]. Amazon.com.</ref> ''Outliers'' was a number 1 ''New York Times'' bestseller for 11 straight weeks and was [[Time (magazine)|''Time'']]'s number 10 non-fiction book of 2008 as well as named to the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''{{'s}} list of the 50 best non-fiction books of 2008.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2009-02-15/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers], ''The New York Times'', 15 February 2009.</ref><ref>Grossman, Lev. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100228034356/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1864143_1864154,00.html "The Top 10 of Everything 2008"]. ''Time'', 3 November 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/The-50-best-nonfiction-books-of-2008-3257259.php The 50 best nonfiction books of 2008]. ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''. 21 December 2008.</ref>

''Fortune'' described ''The Tipping Point'' as "a fascinating book that makes you see the world in a different way".<ref>{{cite news|access-date=28 December 2010|last=Kelly|first=Erin|title=Bookshelf|work=Fortune |date=6 March 2000|url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/03/06/275205/index.htm}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|access-date=28 December 2010|last=Hawthorne|first=Christopher|title=The Massive Outbreak of an Idea|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=5 March 2000|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/03/05/RV99810.DTL}}</ref> The ''Daily Telegraph'' called it "a wonderfully offbeat study of that little-understood phenomenon, the social epidemic".<ref>{{cite news|access-date=28 December 2010|last=Thompson|first=Damian|title=Are You a maven or a connector?|work=Daily Telegraph|date=9 May 2000|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4720659/Are-you-a-maven-or-a-connector.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206134404/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4720659/Are-you-a-maven-or-a-connector.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 February 2011|location=London, UK}}</ref>

Reviewing ''Blink'', ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'' dubbed Gladwell "the most original American journalist since the young Tom Wolfe."<ref>{{cite web|access-date = 28 December 2010|last=Fuson|first=Ken|title=The Bright Stuff|work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|date=16 January 2005|url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2005-01-16/entertainment/0501150024_1_malcolm-gladwell-subject-medical-matters}}</ref> [[Farhad Manjoo]] at ''Salon'' described the book as "a real pleasure. As in the best of Gladwell's work, ''Blink'' brims with surprising insights about our world and ourselves."<ref>{{cite news|access-date=28 December 2010|last=Manjoo|first=Farhad|title = Before you can say|work=Salon|date=13 January 2005|url=http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/01/13/gladwell}}</ref> ''[[The Economist]]'' called ''Outliers'' "a compelling read with an important message".<ref>{{cite news|access-date=28 December 2010|title=The road to success: How did I do that?|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=11 December 2008|url=https://www.economist.com/node/12758320}}</ref> [[David Leonhardt]] wrote in ''The New York Times Book Review'': "In the vast world of nonfiction writing, Malcolm Gladwell is as close to a singular talent as exists today" and ''Outliers'' "leaves you mulling over its inventive theories for days afterward".<ref>{{cite news|access-date=28 December 2010|last=Leonhardt|first=David|title=Chance and Circumstance|work=The New York Times Book Review|date=30 November 2008|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/books/review/Leonhardt-t.html}}</ref> Ian Sample wrote in ''The Guardian'': "Brought together, the pieces form a dazzling record of Gladwell's art. There is depth to his research and clarity in his arguments, but it is the breadth of subjects he applies himself to that is truly impressive."<ref name="IanSample"/><ref>{{cite news|access-date=28 December 2010|last=Reimer|first=Susan|title=Pill Inventor Gave Women Protection But Lost His Religion |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|date=5 October 2009|url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-10-05/news/0910040057_1_rhythm-method-pill-john-rock}}</ref>

Gladwell's critics have described him as prone to oversimplification. ''[[The New Republic]]'' called the final chapter of ''Outliers,'' "impervious to all forms of critical thinking" and said Gladwell believes "a perfect anecdote proves a fatuous rule".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/63687/mister-lucky|title=Mister Lucky|magazine=The New Republic|date=3 February 2009|access-date=20 July 2016}}</ref> Gladwell has also been criticized for his emphasis on [[anecdotal evidence]] over research to support his conclusions.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/books/18kaku.html|work=The New York Times|first=Michiko|last=Kakutani|title=It's True: Success Succeeds, and Advantages Can Help|date=18 November 2008}}</ref> Maureen Tkacik and [[Steven Pinker]] have challenged the integrity of Gladwell's approach.<ref>{{cite web|access-date = 19 November 2009|url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091123/tkacik |title = Gladwell for Dummies|work=[[The Nation]]|date=4 November 2009|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113051459/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091123/tkacik}}</ref><ref name=nyblog>{{cite news|access-date=19 November 2009|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.html|title=Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective|work=The New York Times|date=7 November 2009|first=Steven|last=Pinker|author-link=Steven Pinker}}</ref> Even while praising Gladwell's writing style and content, Pinker summed up Gladwell as "a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning", while accusing him of "cherry-picked anecdotes, post-hoc sophistry and false dichotomies" in his book ''Outliers''. Referencing a Gladwell reporting mistake in which Gladwell refers to "[[eigenvalue]]" as "Igon Value", Pinker criticizes his lack of expertise: "I will call this the Igon Value Problem: when a writer's education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong."<ref name=nyblog/> A writer in ''[[The Independent]]'' accused Gladwell of posing "obvious" insights.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-of-the-week-outliers-by-malcolm-gladwell-1027343.html|work=The Independent|location=London, UK|title=Book of the Week: Outliers, By Malcolm Gladwell|first=Boyd|last=Tonkin|date=21 November 2008|access-date=12 May 2010}}</ref> ''[[The Register]]'' has accused Gladwell of making arguments by weak analogy and commented Gladwell has an "aversion for fact", adding: "Gladwell has made a career out of handing simple, vacuous truths to people and dressing them up with flowery language and an impressionistic take on the scientific method."<ref>{{cite web|last=Vance|first= Ashlee|author-link=Ashlee Vance|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/20/freak_tipping_point/ |title=Abortion or Broken Windows – How can the US be safer?|website=[[The Register]]|date= 20 January 2007}}</ref> In that regard, ''The New Republic'' has called him "America's Best-Paid Fairy-Tale Writer".<ref>Gray, John (22 November 2013), [https://newrepublic.com/article/115467/malcolm-gladwells-david-and-goliath-fairy-tales "Malcolm Gladwell Is America's Best-Paid Fairy-Tale Writer"], ''New Republic''. Retrieved 17 January 2016.</ref> His approach was satirized by the online site "The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207221117/http://www.malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com/|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 February 2011|title=The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator|publisher=The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator|access-date=9 July 2013}}</ref>

In 2005, Gladwell commanded a $45,000 speaking fee.<ref>Paul Wilner (30 January 2005), "[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/30/LVGIDAUHH81.DTL&ao=all In the 'Blink' of an eye: Malcolm Gladwell on the power of first impression]", ''San Francisco Chronicle''. Retrieved 10 June 2012.</ref> In 2008, he was making "about 30 speeches a year—most for tens of thousands of dollars, some for free", according to a profile in ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nymag.com/arts/books/features/52014/|title=Geek Pop Star|last=Zengerle|first=Jason|date=7 November 2008 |publisher=Nymag.com|access-date=9 July 2013}}</ref> In 2011, he gave three talks to groups of small businessmen as part of a three-city speaking tour put on by [[Bank of America]]. The program was titled "Bank of America Small Business Speaker Series: A Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell".<ref>"[http://mediaroom.bankofamerica.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=234503&p=irol-newsarticle&ID=1631079 Bank of America Features Malcolm Gladwell in Speaker Series for Local Small Business Owners]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}", Bank of America, 16 November 2011; accessed 3 July 2012.</ref> Paul Starobin, writing in the ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'', said the engagement's "entire point seemed to be to forge a public link between a tarnished brand (the bank), and a winning one (a journalist often described in profiles as the epitome of cool)".<ref>Paul Starobin (March/April 2012), "[https://www.cjr.org/feature/money_talks_marchapril2012.php?page=all Money Talks: If you cover Wall Street, should you take Wall Street speaking fees?]", ''Columbia Journalism Review''. Retrieved 10 June 2012.</ref> An article by Melissa Bell of ''The Washington Post'' posed the question: "Malcolm Gladwell: Bank of America's new spokesman?"<ref>Bell, Melissa (16 November 2011), "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/malcolm-gladwell-bank-of-americas-new-spokesman/2011/11/16/gIQAAE0ASN_blog.html Malcolm Gladwell: Bank of America's new spokesman?]", ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved 10 June 2012.</ref> ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' editor [[Clara Jeffery]] said Gladwell's job for Bank of America had "terrible ethical optics". However, Gladwell says he was unaware that Bank of America was "bragging about his speaking engagements" until the ''Atlantic Wire'' emailed him. Gladwell explained:
{{blockquote|I did a talk about innovation for a group of entrepreneurs in Los Angeles a while back, sponsored by Bank of America. They liked the talk, and asked me to give the same talk at two more small business events—in Dallas and yesterday in D.C. That's the extent of it. No different from any other speaking gig. I haven't been asked to do anything else and imagine that's it.<ref>Estes, Adam Clark (16 November 2011), [http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2011/11/malcolm-gladwell-bank-america-deal-bragging/45081 "Malcolm Gladwell had no idea Bank of America was bragging about him"], ''Atlantic Wire''. Retrieved 13 June 2012.</ref>}}

In 2012, [[CBS]]'s ''[[60 Minutes]]'' attributed the trend of American parents "[[Redshirting (academic)|redshirting]]" their five-year-olds (postponing entrance into kindergarten to give them an advantage) to a section in Gladwell's ''Outliers''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57389721-10391709/kindergarten-redshirting.-what-would-you-do/?tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea.1|publisher=CBS News |work=60 Minutes|title = Kindergarten 'redshirting'. What would you do?|date=2 September 2012}}</ref>

Sociology professor Shayne Lee referenced ''Outliers'' in a CNN editorial commemorating [[Martin Luther King Jr.]]'s birthday. Lee discussed the strategic timing of King's ascent from a "Gladwellian perspective".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/16/opinion/lee-mlk-youth|title=MLK, born at just the right time|work=CNN|first=Shayne|last=Lee|date=16 January 2012|access-date=24 July 2013}}</ref> Gladwell gives credit to [[Richard Nisbett]] and [[Lee Ross]] for inventing the Gladwellian genre.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/books/review/malcolm-gladwell-by-the-book.html|title=Malcolm Gladwell: By the Book |work=The New York Times|date=3 October 2013|access-date=23 November 2013 }}</ref>

Gladwell has provided blurbs for "scores of book covers", leading ''[[The New York Times]]'' to ask, "Is it possible that Mr. Gladwell has been spreading the love a bit too thinly?" Gladwell, who said he did not know how many blurbs he had written, acknowledged, "The more blurbs you give, the lower the value of the blurb. It's the [[tragedy of the commons]]."<ref>{{cite news|author=Holson, Laura M.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/fashion/malcolm-gladwell-hands-out-book-blurbs-like-santa-does-presents.html|title=Malcolm Gladwell Hands Out Book Blurbs Like Santa Does Presents|newspaper=The New York Times|date=16 December 2015 |access-date=23 January 2016}}</ref>

==Podcast==
Gladwell is host of the podcast ''[[Revisionist History (podcast)|Revisionist History]]'', initially produced through [[Panoply Media]] and now through Gladwell's own podcast company. It began in 2016 and has aired seven 10-episode seasons. Each episode begins with an inquiry about a person, event, or idea, and proceeds to question the received wisdom about the subject. Gladwell was recruited to create a podcast by [[Jacob Weisberg]], editor-in-chief of [[The Slate Group]], which also includes the podcast network Panoply Media. In September 2018, Gladwell announced he was co-founding a podcast company, later named [[Pushkin Industries]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/09/business/media/podcasts-daily-newsier-washington-post-npr.html|title=Podcasts Are Getting Newsier|last=Pesier|first=Jacklyn|date=9 December 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=31 December 2018}}</ref> with Weisberg.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/business/media/jacob-weisberg-slate-malcolm-gladwell.html|title=Jacob Weisberg Leaves Slate to Join Maclolm Gladwell in Podcast Venture|last=Peiser|first=Jaclyn|date=12 September 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=31 December 2018}}</ref> About this decision, Gladwell told the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'': "There is a certain kind of whimsy and emotionality that can only be captured on audio."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mainland-optimism-podcast-revolution-20181230-story.html|title=Why the podcast revolution is here to stay|date=30 December 2018|first= Lexi|last= Mainland
|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=10 January 2019}}</ref>

He also has a music podcast with [[Bruce Headlam]] and [[Rick Rubin]], titled ''Broken Record'' where they interview musicians.<ref>Woods, Sean (25 November 2018). [https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/malcolm-gladwell-podcast-broken-record-758875/ "Malcolm Gladwell on 'Broken Record' Podcast, Hanging Out With Musicians"], ''[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]]''.</ref> It has two seasons, 2018–2019 and 2020 with a total of 49 episodes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://brokenrecordpodcast.com |title = Broken Record Podcast – Pushkin Industries}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Gladwell is a Christian.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-10-09 |title=Interview: Malcolm Gladwell on his return to faith while writing 'David and Goliath' |url=https://religionnews.com/2013/10/09/interview-malcolm-gladwell-return-faith-writing-david-goliath/ |first=Sarah Pulliam |last=Bailey|access-date=2022-12-19 |website=Religion News Service |language=en-US}}</ref> His family attended [[Above Bar Church, Southampton|Above Bar Church]] in Southampton, UK, and later Gale Presbyterian in Elmira when they moved to Canada. His parents and siblings are part of the [[Mennonite]] community in Southwestern Ontario.<ref name="Author Malcolm Gladwell finds his faith again" /> Gladwell wandered away from his Christian roots when he moved to New York, only to rediscover his faith during the writing of ''David and Goliath'' and his encounter with Wilma Derksen regarding the death of her child.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Gladwell|first=Malcolm|date=January–February 2014|title=How I Rediscovered Faith|url=https://relevantmagazine.com/life5/malcolm-gladwell-how-i-rediscovered-faith/|magazine=[[Relevant (magazine)|Relevant]]|issue=67|access-date=20 September 2020}}</ref>

Gladwell was a national class runner and an Ontario High School ([[Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations]] – OFSAA) champion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/malcolm-gladwell-i-would-rather-be-a-mediocre-runner-than-a-good-one/|title=Malcolm Gladwell: 'I would rather be a mediocre runner than a good one'|date=5 February 2019|first=Madeleine|last= Kelly|website=Canadian Running Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=8 July 2019}}</ref> He was among Canada's fastest teenagers at [[1500 metres]], running 4:14 at the age of 13 and 4:05 when aged 14. At university, Gladwell ran 1500 metres in 3:55. In 2014, at the age of 51, he ran a 4:54 at the [[Fifth Avenue Mile]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a19516426/malcolm-gladwell/|title=This Best-Selling Author Is Fast—Really Fast|date=18 September 2014|website=Men's Health}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Athlinks |url=https://www.athlinks.com/search/unclaimed/?category=unclaimed&term=Malcolm%20Gladwell |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=www.athlinks.com |language=en}}</ref> At 57 he ran a 5:15 mile.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/LFFP5Y7DpFA Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20210530125258/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFFP5Y7DpFA&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFFP5Y7DpFA| title = Malcolm Gladwell Runs 5:15 Mile At 57 Years Old, Dusts CITIUS MAG's Chris Chavez in Exhibition Race | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

He had his first child, a daughter, in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Malcolm Gladwell Returns |url=https://armchairexpertpod.com/pods/malcolm-gladwell-returns-2 |access-date=12 August 2022 |first=Dax |last=Shepard|website=Armchair Expert |date=28 July 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Awards and honours==
{{Incomplete list|date=May 2023}}

In 2005, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' named Gladwell one of its 100 most influential people.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}

In 2007, he received the [[American Sociological Association]]'s first Award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}} The same year, he received an honorary degree from the University of Waterloo.

In 2011, he was named a Member of the [[Order of Canada]], the second highest [[Award|honour]] for merit in the system of [[orders, decorations, and medals of Canada]].<ref name=":0" />

He has received honorary degrees from the [[University of Waterloo]] (2007)<ref>{{cite web |date=2 May 2007 |title=UW awards 17 honorary degrees at spring convocation |url=http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=4861 |access-date=17 January 2009 |publisher=University of Waterloo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-03-07|title=When Gladwell speaks, leaders listen|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/alumni/when-gladwell-speaks-leaders-listen|access-date=2022-01-14|website=Alumni|language=en}}</ref> and the [[University of Toronto]]  (2011).{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}

==Bibliography==
{{Incomplete list|date=July 2015}}

===Books===
* {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm |title= [[The Tipping Point|The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference]] |location= Boston |publisher=Little, Brown |year= 2000 | isbn = 0-316-31696-2 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm | author-mask=1 |title= [[Blink (book)|Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking]] |location=New York |publisher= Little, Brown |year= 2005 | isbn = 0-316-17232-4 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm | author-mask=1 |title= [[Outliers (book)|Outliers: The Story of Success]] |location=New York |publisher= Little, Brown & Co. |year= 2008 | isbn = 978-0-316-01792-3 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm | author-mask=1 |title= [[What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures]] |location= New York |publisher= Little, Brown & Co. |year= 2009 | isbn = 978-0-316-07584-8 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm | author-mask=1 |title= [[David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants]] |location= New York |publisher= Little, Brown & Co. |year=2013 | isbn = 978-0-316-20436-1 |ref=none}}<ref>{{cite news |last= Lee |first= Stephen |title= 'Tipping Point' author Malcolm Gladwell's next book announced |url=http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/07/09/tipping-point-author-malcolm-gladwells-next-book-announced/|access-date= 9 July 2012 |newspaper= Entertainment Weekly |date= 3 August 2012}}</ref>
* {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm | author-mask=1 |title= [[Talking to Strangers|Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know]] |location= New York |publisher=Little, Brown & Co. |year=2019 |isbn = 978-0-316-47852-6 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |author=Gladwell, Malcolm | author-mask=1 |title= [[The Bomber Mafia|The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War]] |location= New York |publisher=Little, Brown & Co. |year=2021 |isbn = 978-0-316-29661-8 |ref=none}}

===Audiobooks===
* ''Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon''
* ''I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pushkin.fm/hosts/malcolm-gladwell | title=Malcolm Gladwell – Audiobooks & Podcasts }}</ref>

===Essays and reporting===
* {{cite magazine |last1=Gladwell |first1=Malcolm |title=The Ketchup Conundrum |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=6 September 2004 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/06/the-ketchup-conundrum |access-date=29 June 2022}}
* {{cite magazine |last= Gladwell |first= Malcolm |author-mask=1 |title=Letter from Saddleback: The Cellular Church: How Rick Warren's congregation grew |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=12 September 2005 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/12/the-cellular-church |access-date=7 January 2019}}
* {{cite magazine |last= Gladwell |first= Malcolm |author-mask=1 |date= 13 February 2006 |title= Million-Dollar Murray: why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage |magazine=The New Yorker | url=http://gladwell.com/million-dollar-murray/ |access-date=14 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318142026/http://gladwell.com/million-dollar-murray/ |archive-date=18 March 2015}}
* {{cite magazine|last=Gladwell |first=Malcolm | author-mask=1 | date= 5 November 2007 | url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/12/dangerous-minds | title= Dangerous Minds |magazine=The New Yorker | access-date = 19 June 2020}}
* {{cite magazine |last= Gladwell |first= Malcolm |author-mask=1 | url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/20/late-bloomers-2?intcid=mod-most-popular | title=Late Bloomers | magazine= The New Yorker| date= 20 October 2008 | access-date= 4 January 2016}}
* {{cite magazine |last= Gladwell |first= Malcolm|author-mask=1 |date= 4 October 2010 |title= Small Change|magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/small-change-3|access-date= 8 December 2014}}
* {{cite magazine |last= Gladwell |author-mask=1 |first=Malcolm |date= 14 November 2011 |title= The Tweaker|department= Annals of Technology |magazine= The New Yorker|volume=87 |issue= 36 |pages=32–35 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_gladwell|access-date= 23 April 2014}}
* {{cite magazine |author=Gladwell, Malcolm |author-mask=1 |date=31 March 2014 |title=Sacred and profane : how not to negotiate with believers |department=Annals of Religion |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=90 |issue=6 |pages=22–28 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/31/sacred-and-profane-4 <!--|access-date=4 May 2018-->}}
* {{cite magazine |last= Gladwell |first= Malcolm |author-mask= 1 |date= 28 July 2014 |title= Trust No One: Kim Philby and the hazards of mistrust |department= The Critics. A Critic at Large |magazine= The New Yorker |volume= 90 |issue= 21 |pages= 70–75 |url= https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/philby |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140723190902/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/philby |url-status=dead |archive-date= 23 July 2014 |access-date= 30 September 2014 }} Includes review of {{cite book |title= A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal |last= MacIntyre |first= Ben |year= 2014 |publisher= Crown |isbn= 978-0-80413663-1 |url= https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780804136631 }}
* {{cite magazine |last= Gladwell |first= Malcolm|author-mask=1 |date=4 May 2015|title=The engineer's lament: two ways of thinking about automotive safety |department= Dept. of Transportation |magazine= The New Yorker|volume=91 |issue= 11 |pages= 46–55|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/04/the-engineers-lament|access-date=1 July 2015}}
* {{cite magazine |author=Gladwell, Malcolm |author-mask=1 |date=26 December 2016 |title=The outside man : what's the difference between Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden? |department=The Critics. A Critic at Large |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=92 |issue=42 |pages=119–125 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/daniel-ellsberg-edward-snowden-and-the-modern-whistle-blower <!--|access-date=18 April 2017-->}}<ref>Online version is titled "Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistle-Blower".</ref>

===Podcasts===
* {{cite AV media|last= Gladwell |first=Malcolm  |title= [[Revisionist History (podcast)|Revisionist History]] |publisher= The Slate Group |year= 2016 |ref=none}}
* {{cite AV media|last= Gladwell |first=Malcolm |first2=Rick |last2=Rubin |name-list-style=amp |title= Broken Record |publisher= Pushkin Industries |year= 2018|ref=none}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/broken-record|title=Megaphone: A Modern Podcasting Platform by Panoply}}</ref>

===Book reviews===
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! class="unsortable"|Work(s) reviewed
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|2015
|{{cite journal <!--|author=Gladwell, Malcolm -->|date=12 January 2015 |title=The Bill |department=The Critics. Books |journal=The New Yorker |volume=90 |issue=43 |pages=65–70 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/12/bill-6 <!--|access-date=14 August 2019-->}}
|{{cite book |author=Brill, Steven |title=America's Bitter Pill |publisher=Random House |ref=none}}
|-
|2015
|{{cite journal <!--|author=Gladwell, Malcolm -->|date=18 May 2015 |title=Mirror stage : a memoir of working undercover for the Drug Enforcement Administration |department=The Critics. Books |journal=The New Yorker |volume=91 |issue=13 |pages=93–96 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/mirror-stage <!--|access-date=5 August 2015}-->}}
|{{cite book |author1=Follis, Edward |author2=Douglas Century |name-list-style=amp |title=The Dark Art: My Undercover Life in Global Narco-terrorism |location=New York |publisher=Gotham Books |year=2014 |ref=none}}
|}

===Filmography===
* ''The Missionary'' (2013, TV movie){{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

===Other appearances===
Gladwell was a featured storyteller for [[the Moth]] podcast. He told a story about a well-intentioned wedding toast for a young man and his friends that went wrong.<ref>[http://themoth.org/posts/storytellers/malcolm-gladwell Malcolm Gladwell], TheMoth.org; accessed 17 January 2016.</ref>
Gladwell was featured in General Motors "EVerybody in." campaign.<ref>[https://twitter.com/GM/status/1347597790638010370], twitter.com;</ref>

Gladwell is the only guest to have been featured as a headliner at every [[OZY Fest]] festival<ref>{{Cite web|title=OZY Fest 2020 Lineup|url=https://www.ozy.com/ozyfestlineup/|access-date=2 April 2021|website=OZY|language=en-US}}</ref>—an annual music and ideas festival produced by [[OZY (media company)|OZY Media]]—other than OZY co-founder and CEO [[Carlos Watson (journalist)|Carlos Watson]]. Gladwell has also appeared on several television shows for OZY Media, including the ''[[The Carlos Watson Show|Carlos Watson Show]]'' (YouTube)<ref>{{Citation|title=Malcolm Gladwell's Surprising Solutions for Racial Harmony|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12KH7HdZNg|language=en|access-date=2 April 2021}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead YouTube link|date=February 2022}}</ref> and ''Third Rail With OZY'' (PBS).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Third Rail with OZY|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/third-rail/home/|access-date=2 April 2021|website=Third Rail with OZY {{!}} Official Site {{!}} PBS|archive-date=13 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413084628/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/third-rail/home/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Gladwell has a chapter giving advice in [[Tim Ferriss]]'s book ''[[Tools of Titans]]''.

Gladwell was voiced by [[Colton Dunn]] in [[Solar Opposites]] S3.E1 ''The Extremity Triangulator''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12753254/ | title=The Extremity Triangulator | website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>

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