Gladwell is an English-Canadian New York Times bestselling author, podcaster, public speaker, and journalist. He has written seven full-length books, including The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, hosts the Revisionist History podcast, and owns the podcasting company Pushkin Industries with cofounder Jacob Weisberg, the son of Connector Lois Weisberg. Gladwell is one of the most influential voices in popular sociology and psychology. He was named to the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in 2005, received the American Sociological Association's Award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues in 2007, and became a member of the Order of Canada in 2011.

Gladwell was born in Hampshire, England, and moved to Ontario, Canada, with his family when he was six. He received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Toronto in 1984 and moved to Indiana to work for The American Spectator. Gladwell began writing for The Washington Post before moving to The New Yorker in 1996. He published The Tipping Point in 2000, which discusses the often misunderstood spread of social epidemics and became the first in a series of bestsellers established him as a social commentator.

Gladwell received much praise for his work throughout the 2000s, but he was also criticized by peers for oversimplifying complex phenomena, such as his overreliance on the

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