Happy Birthday, Malcolm Gladwell (Essayist - Author) !

from Writer's Almanac (American Public Media: Garrison Keillor):  September 3 is the birthday of New Yorker staff writer and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell, born in Fareham, England (1963), and raised in Canada, the son of a Jamaican psychotherapist and a British engineering professor.
Parts of what would become his first book first appeared in The New Yorker magazine, where he started as a staff writer in 1996. He received a million-dollar advance for that first book, published in 2000 as The Tipping Point. Since then, he's written Blink (2005) and Outliers (2008). He said about his books: "The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is."
His next book, David and Goliath, is set to be released in 2013.