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Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. In 2001, he won the National Magazine Award for his New Yorker profiles, of Ron Popeil, called “The Pitchman.” He is the author of the New York Times best-sellers “The Tipping Point,” “Blink,” “Outliers,” “What the Dog Saw,” “David and Goliath,” “Talking to Strangers,” and “The Bomber Mafia.”

He is the co-founder and president of the audio-production company Pushkin Industries, which is the home to his popular podcast “Revisionist History” and his most recent audiobook, “Miracle and Wonder,” a biography of Paul Simon.

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