Malcolm Gladwell Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==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> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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