Malcolm Gladwell's Time In D.C.
Yes, he used to live and work here, and the Washingtonian has a long piece about his early days in Washington.
It’s a strange line of work for someone who got his start in Washington, a place that is, in Gladwell’s words, “its own separate universe.” While he speaks fondly of his time here, friends from his DC days agree he was unusually impervious to Washington’s magnetic field.
“Malcolm was thoroughly unconventional,” says Post columnist David Ignatius, who as Outlook editor in 1987 was instrumental in bringing Gladwell to the paper.
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