![]() ![]() His first book, “The Tipping Point,” was published in March 2000, just days before the Nasdaq peaked. So unlike most children of mathematicians and therapists, he came to learn, as he would later recall, “that there is beauty in saying something clearly and simply.” As a journalist, he plumbed the behavioral research for optimistic lessons about the human condition, and he found an eager audience during the heady, proudly geeky ’90s. His mother also just happened to be a writer on the side. Their professions pointed young Malcolm toward the behavioral sciences, whose popularity would explode in the 1990s. His mother was a psychotherapist and his father a mathematician. No one could know it then, but he arrived with nearly the perfect background for his time. ![]() ![]() In 1984, a young man named Malcolm graduated from the University of Toronto and moved to the United States to try his hand at journalism. Or at least that’s one version of the story of Malcolm Gladwell. ![]() In the vast world of nonfiction writing, he is as close to a singular talent as exists today. There, he wrote articles full of big ideas about the hidden patterns of ordinary life, which then became grist for two No. After less than a decade at The Post, he moved up to the pinnacle of literary journalism, The New Yorker. Thanks to his uncommonly clear writing style and keen eye for a story, he quickly landed a job at The Washington Post. ![]()
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