# Malcolm Gladwell
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**Malcolm Timothy Gladwell** CM (born 3 September 1963) is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for *The New Yorker* since 1996 and has published eight books. He is also the host of the podcast *Revisionist History* and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries.
Gladwell was born in Fareham, Hampshire, England. His mother Joyce is a Jamaican psychotherapist and his father Graham was a mathematics professor from Kent, England. When he was six, his family moved to the Mennonite community of Elmira, Ontario, Canada.
Gladwell's writings often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences and make frequent use of academic work. His best-known books include *The Tipping Point* (2000), *Blink* (2005), *Outliers* (2008), and *Talking to Strangers* (2019). He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2011.
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