WRITER

Malcolm Gladwell

1963 - Today

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born 3 September 1963) is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published seven books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Malcolm Gladwell has received more than 7,666,409 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Malcolm Gladwell is the 6,057th most popular writer (down from 5,505th in 2019), the 4,948th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,565th in 2019) and the 552nd most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

7.7M
Page Views (PV)
43.60
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
34
Languages Editions (L)
2.14
Effective Languages (L*)
4.91
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Outliers

Psychology, Business, Successful people

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

1976

The Tipping Point

Contagion (Social psychology), Business, Causation

2000

What the dog saw and other adventure stories

Psychology, Business, nyt:paperback_nonfiction=2011-02-26

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point; Blink; and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from TheNew Yorker over the same period. Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias" and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate. "Good writing," Gladwell says in his preface, "does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head."What the Dog Saw is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that have made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.

2009

The tipping point

Social psychology, Contagion (Social psychology), Causation

2000

Blink

Intuition, Education, Recovery

Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. It is a product of long hours and intelligent design, of meaningful work environments and particular rules and principles. This book shows us how we can hone our instinctive ability to know in an instant, helping us to bring out the best in our thinking and become better decision-makers in our homes, offices and in everyday life. Just as he did with his revolutionary theory of the tipping point, Gladwell reveals how the power of 'blink' could fundamentally transform our relationships, the way we consume, create and communicate, how we run our businesses and even our societies.You'll never think about thinking in the same way again.

2005

Page views of Malcolm Gladwells by language

Over the past year Malcolm Gladwell has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 569,741 views, followed by Spanish (15,215), and German (13,180). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Japanese (63.89%), Simple English (45.39%), and Ukrainian (13.52%)