Malcolm Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is a British-born Canadian journalist, author, and pop sociologist, based in New York City. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He is best known as the author of the books, The Tipping Point (2000), Blink (2005), and Outliers (2008).

Gladwell's English father, Graham, is a civil engineering professor at the University of Waterloo; his mother, Joyce, is a Jamaican-born psychotherapist. Gladwell has said that his mother, who published a book titled Brown Face, Big Master in 1969, is his role model as a writer. Though born in the United Kingdom, Gladwell was raised in Elmira, Ontario, Canada and graduated with a degree in history from the University of Toronto's Trinity College in 1984.

During his high school years, Gladwell was an outstanding middle distance runner and won the 1500m Midget Boys title at the 1978 Ontario High School championships in Kingston, Ontario, in a duel with eventual Canadian Open record holder David Reid. Gladwell began his career at The American Spectator, a conservative monthly. From 1987 to 1996, he was a science writer—and later the New York bureau chief—for The Washington Post.

He is currently a staff writer for The New Yorker. His books—The Tipping Point (2000) and Blink (2005)—were international bestsellers. Both works were substantially serialized in The New Yorker.

Gladwell received a one million dollar advance for The Tipping Point, which went on to sell over two million copies in the United States. Blink sold equally well. The sales of the books made Gladwell a successful public speaker, commanding about US$80,000 an appearance.

His latest book, Outliers: The Story of Success, was released on November 18, 2008.

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