Outliers: The Story of Success

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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Turtleback
Published: 01/01/2011
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780606324274

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.8
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 164990 / Outliers: The Story of Success

About the Author
Malcolm Gladwell is the author of three other books, "The Tipping Point," "Blink," and "What the Dog Saw," all of which are "New York Times" bestsellers. He has been a staff writer for "The New Yorker" since 1996, prior to which he was a reporter with the "Washington Post," where he covered business and science and also served as the newspaper's New York City bureau chief. Gladwell was born in England, grew up in rural Ontario, and now lives in New York City.

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