Marita's Bargain

"All my friends now are from KIPP."

EPILOGUE

A Jamaican Story

"If a progeny of young colored children is brought forth, these are emancipated."

NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

About the Author

Also by Malcolm Gladwell

Acclaim for Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers

Copyright

MALCOLM GLADWELL is also the author of the internationally bestselling books The Tipping Point, Blink, and What the Dog Saw. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1996. Prior to that 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.

For more information about Malcolm Gladwell, visit his website at www.gladwell.com.

ALSO BY MALCOLM GLADWELL

What the Dog Saw

Blink

The Tipping Point

Acclaim for Malcolm Gladwell's

Outliers

The Story of Success

"On an eternal quest to explain us to ourselves, Malcolm Gladwell once again turns his intellectual divining rod toward a common yet mysterious cultural phenomenon-in this case, the lives of outliers, those remarkable individuals whose success millions of us strive to duplicate. What is the difference, Gladwell wonders, between those who do something special with their lives and everyone else? From software billionaires to professional athletes, Gladwell explains with his trademark counterintuitive logic how the habits of highly successful people pale in importance to where, when, and how you were raised.... As always, insights guaranteed to comfort and discomfort equally."

-Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair

"In the vast world of nonfiction writing, Malcolm Gladwell is as close to a singular talent as exists today.... Outliers is a pleasure to read and leaves you mulling over its inventive theories for days afterward.... Outliers represents a new kind of book for Gladwell.... It is almost a manifesto."

-David Leonhardt, New York Times Book Review

"Unabashedly inspiring.... A provocative and practical book about the landscape of success."

-Jonah Raskin, San Francisco Chronicle

"A must-read for educators, recruiters, and parents.... Outliers is evidence of Mr. Gladwell's 10,000 hours."

-Joanne McNeil, Sunday Times

"An important new book.... Gladwell intelligently captures a larger tendency of thought-the growing appreciation of the power of cultural patterns, social contagions, memes.... Gladwell's social determinism is a useful corrective to the Homo economicus view of human nature."

-David Brooks, New York Times

"Outliers is a compelling read with an important message: by understanding better what makes people successful we should be able to produce more successful (and happy) people."

-Economist

"The explosively entertaining Outliers might be Gladwell's best and most useful work yet.... There are both brilliant yarns and life lessons here: Outliers is riveting science, self-help, and entertainment, all in one book."

-Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly

"No other book I read this year combines such a distinctive prose style with truly thought-provoking content. Gladwell somehow writes with a high degree of dazzle but at the same time remains as clear and direct as even Strunk or White could hope for."

-Frank Reiss, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"A fascinating and entertaining book, one that exposes the rarely acknowledged forces behind success."

-James F. Sweeney, Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Gladwell's points are well worth pondering."

-Business Week

"Insightful.... If enough people read and ponder the implications of Outliers, perhaps that can help begin the much needed process of turning around current counterproductive attitudes toward education and toward life."