1. Malcolm Gladwell
This half-Jamaican journalist is a gifted storyteller, famous for writing long-form New Yorker articles that make you feel smarter afterwards and for turning the best ones into best-sellers like Blink, Outliers and The Tipping Point. Gladwell’s West Indian heritage doesn’t often feature in his work, but he touches on it in this piece on the relationship between sporting excellence and race, and in this radio interview on the same topic.