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An Evening with Malcom Gladwell
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Moderated by
Brad D. Smith

Marshall University President

An Evening with Malcolm Gladwell

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31 | 7:30 PM
Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center

Discussion Topic: How To Make Changes In A Changing Complicated World

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of eight New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath, Talking to Strangers, The Bomber Mafia, and Revenge of the Tipping Point. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio production company that produces audiobooks like Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon, as well as podcasts including Revisionist History, Broken Record, The Happiness Lab, Against the Rules, and Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage. Gladwell has been included in the Time 100 Most Influential People list and was named one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers. Previously, he was a staff writer for The New Yorker. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.

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