Malcolm Gladwell Net Worth 2024: Age, Height, Weight, Girlfriend, Dating, Bio-Wiki

Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, author and public speaker. He has also established himself as a successful writer and speaker. He is the author of five famous New York Time bestsellers which are, The Tipping Point, Outliers, Blink, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is a co-founder of an audio content company that produces the podcast Revisionist History called the Pushkin Industries.

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Early Life & Biography

Gladwell was born in Fareham Hampshire England. His father is Graham Gladwell, a mathematics professor from Kent England and his mother Joyce Gladwell, a Jamaican Psychotherapist. He is a Christian where they attended Above Bar Church in Southampton and when in Canada at Gale Presbyterian in Elmira. They lived in rural Canada throughout his childhood. He holds Canadian nationality and belongs to Afro Jamaican ethnicity. His mother was his role model as a writer, and at the age of 6 years, their family relocated from Southampton to Elmira Ontario in Canada.

At the age of 11, his father had noted Malcolm was an ambitious and intelligent boy. By then his father worked at the University of Waterloo as a professor of mathematics and engineering, so he allowed him to go around the offices which boosted the boy’s interest in reading and libraries. He was a national class runner and an Ontario High School association called OFSAA (Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations) He went to an internship with the National Journalism Centre in Washington D.C. In 1984, he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Toronto, Trinity College in Toronto.

Personal Life

Gladwell lives a simple life with no complications where he is unmarried and has zero kids. He is more focused on his career rather than involving himself in controversies and scandals.

Age, Height, and Weight

Being born on 3 September 1963, Malcolm Gladwell is 60 years old as of today’s date 26th April 2024. His height is 175 cm tall, and his weight is 58 kg.

Career

After graduation, he decided to pursue advertising as a career, but to his disappointment, all his applications were rejected by advertising agencies, but he found a journalism position at The American Spectator and moved to Indiana.

He wrote a conservative magazine owned by Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church for Insights on the News. And later on, he began covering business and science for The Washington Post. In 1996 he started working at The New Yorker with the aim of mining current academic research for insights, theories directions or inspiration where his first assignment was to write about a high-class fashion, but he opted to write a piece about a man who manufactured T-Shirts.

He gained popularity with the Two New Yorker articles: The Tipping Point and The Cool hunt which became his basis for his first book, The Tipping Point, and still continues for The New Yorker up to now. He also worked for Grantland, a sports journalism website founded by former ESPN columnist Bill Simmons as a contributing editor.

In 2002, Gladwell introduced an article in The New Yorker, the concept of The Talent Myth that examined different managerial and administrative techniques that winners and losers companies use and supposedly and incorrectly followed.

Gladwell was featured in a storyteller for the Moth podcast and also Revisionist History which was produced by Panoply the podcast network of The Slate Group. Malcolm Gladwell published his second book, Blink in 2005: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking and later on his third book in 2008 titled, The Story of Success and then two more books What The Dog Saw: And Other Adventures and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants in 2013. He was honoured in 2007 by American sociology for his excellence in the reporting of social issues.

Awards & Achievements

Throughout his career, Malcolm has received several awards and recognized on various categories like he was named among a 100 most influential people by Time, American Sociological Association’s first Award for excellence in the Reporting of social issues. He acquired an honorary degree from the University of Toronto and also from the University of Waterloo. Malcolm was listed in the Order of Canada as the second-highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations and medals of Canada

Net Worth & Salary of Malcolm Gladwell in 2024

As of April 2024, Malcolm has an estimated net worth of $35 million. He is listed as one of the most paid journalists in the World which earns his a huge amount of cash as a speaking fee. He has also published worldwide best-selling books which have become an instant hit in the literary world. Malcolm has been ranked among the best writers and journalist in the modern world today.

Malcolm has maintained a low profile to the public and his fans. He has been able to fully focus on his work with determination and commitments, thus avoiding controversies.