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Malcolm Gladwell

Career
Gladwell is a writer at The New Yorker, where he is allowed to write about whatever he chooses. However, he rarely appears at his office in Times Square because of his self-professed "aversion to midtown". The Leigh Bureau in New Jersey handles Gladwell's speaking requests and negotiates his fees. At one engagement, Gladwell was paid $80,000 to address a company's annual meeting.

Works
Little, Brown and Company published all three of Gladwell's books: The Tipping Point (2000), Blink (2005), and Outliers (2008). Each novel has sold more copies than the previous; the hardcover of Blink sold three times more copies than that of Tipping Point.

In Outliers (2008), for which Little, Brown paid a reported $4 million, Gladwell shines a light on the origins of success and show how little control we have over it. The book uses successful as examples that include Bill Gates, The Beatles, and Mozart, whom Gladwell calls outliers, to further its point.

The term "Gladwellian" has been coined to describe a writing style similar to Gladwell's, which typically focuses on popular theories about modern life.