New York Times best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell will open the 2010-11 George T. Hunter Lecture Series on Monday.
Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine since 1996 and was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2005.
He is the author of four books: “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference” (2000), “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” (2005), “Outliers: The Story of Success” (2008) and “What the Dog Saw” (2009), a compilation of stories published in The New Yorker.
Corinne Allen, executive director of the Benwood Foundation, praised Gladwell “for his valuable insight in the social sciences and his ability to make new and complex ideas accessible to all audiences.”
His presentation starts at 7 p.m. in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall in the UTC Fine Arts Center, corner of Vine and Palmetto streets.
Remaining speakers in the series will be Newark Mayor Cory Booker (Nov. 18); Geoffrey Canada, CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (Feb. 15); and international environmental scholar Dr. Vandana Shiva (April 26).
All of the programs are free, but the limited seating is first come, first served.
The series is sponsored by the Benwood Foundation in partnership with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, The Ochs Center and CreateHere. For more information, visit www.benwood.org.