About the Author

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of six international bestsellers- The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath and most recently, Talking to Strangers. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and co-founder of the audio company Pushkin Industries. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.

Reviews

A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told
*Sunday Times*

Remarkable . . . a work of art . . . one puts this book down shaking one's head at the folly and human cost of it all
*Wall Street Journal*

Gripping . . . in Gladwell's deft hands, the Air Force generals of World War II come back to life as the stirring 20th-century equivalent of Adm. Horatio Nelson and his band of audacious captains from the age of fighting sail . . . Gladwell is a wonderful storyteller
*The New York Times*

Impassioned . . . engagingly written
*Telegraph*

Riveting . . .The Bomber Mafia looks at one of the greatest moral challenges of the Second World War
*author of The Fifth Risk*

Told with the muscular, driving narrative and fizzingly charismatic (real-life) characters of a movie
*Radio Times*

A thought-provoking, accessible account of how people respond to difficult choices in difficult times . . . Gladwell's easy conversational style works well . . . his portraits of individuals are compelling
*Washington Post*

Unexpected empathy . . . fabulistic energy
*Esquire*

Lively, engaging . . . a fascinating story
*The Times*

Important and characteristically readable . . . Gladwell is possibly the most confident storyteller in non-fiction. He always knows exactly where he is going, and he takes you with him in pleasure and comfort.
*New Statesman*