# Professor Melissa Schilling's forthcoming book, "Quirky," is featured among eight business books to read in 2018

1 Faculty News January 5, 2018 ![Inc. logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032187.jpg?itok=TSGPgNt6)>

Excerpt from [Inc.](https://www.inc.com/leigh-buchanan/2018-books-preview.html?cid=search) -- "In Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World (February), New York University professor [Melissa A. Schilling](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/melissa-schilling) sets out to identify what makes such people both capable of and driven to repeated feats of spectacular creativity. Her subjects range across three centuries: from Benjamin Franklin and Marie Curie to Elon Musk and Steve Jobs."

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