Malcolm Timothy Gladwell was born on September 3, 1963, to a Jamaican mother and an English father. When he was 6, his family moved from England to Canada. He was a successful runner in high school, and his childhood was largely intellectually stimulating: his father was a mathematician, his mother was a psychotherapist and author, and Gladwell developed an interest in the world of literature at a young age. He earned an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Toronto in 1984.
Gladwell's experience in journalism dates back to the summer of 1982 when he interned at the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C. Gladwell said that his academic record was not strong...
