Short Essay On Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell was born on September 3, 1963 in Fareham Hampshire, England. At the early age of six, Malcolm moved to Elmira, Ontario, Canada with his family. Since Malcolm’s father Graham Gladwell taught mathematics and engineering at the University of Waterloo. Gladwell spent some of his time wandering and exploring the library where he was led to having a keen interest in reading and literature. During his high school years,14 year old Malcolm was very involved in middle-distance running and won the 1500 meter title at the 1978 Ontario High School championships.

While Malcolm interned at the National Journalism Center in 1982 at Washington, D.C he was also majoring in history at the University of Toronto Trinity College which he graduated two years later. Due to the fact that his grades weren’t acceptable to enter graduate school Gladwell turned to a career in advertising where he accepted a journalism position at The American Spectator. By 1987, Gladwell’s work on business and science was appearing on the Washington Post. He later relocated from The Washington Post to The New Yorker where his career took a major leap of success.
Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point published in 2000 is known as his best-known piece. The book subsequently became an international best-seller and was named one of the best books of the decade by Amazon.com customers. Gladwell achieved awards such as the Time list of one of the 100 most influential people in 2005, in 2007 he won the American Sociological Association’s first award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues, and was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2011. Presently, Malcolm Gladwell continues to write diligently for The New Yorker and is a contributing editor for sports journalism called