Rebecca Mead

Rebecca Mead (born 24 September 1966) is an English writer and journalist.

Life and career

Rebecca Mead was born in London.[1] When she was three years old she relocated with her family to the seaside town of Weymouth in Dorset, where she was raised.[1]

Mead's father was a civil servant, and she has described her background as lower middle class.[2][3] As a teenager she became interested in left-wing politics.[4]

Mead studied English literature at the University of Oxford.[4]

After graduating from Oxford she won a full scholarship to study a master's degree in journalism at New York University.[3] She would later comment, "studying journalism in a classroom, it turned out, was mostly absurd".[4] While at NYU, Mead was employed as an intern by New York Magazine.[1] After graduation the magazine employed her as a fact checker.[1] After a few years she was promoted to features writer.[4]

Mead joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1997.[5]

Mead was naturalised as an American citizen in 2011.[3]

Mead published My Life In Middlemarch (The Road to Middlemarch in the UK) in 2014. A personal study of George Eliot's best-known novel, it received mixed reviews.[6][7][8]

Mead relocated back to Britain in 2018.[3]

Bibliography
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Books
  • One perfect day : the selling of the American wedding. New York: Penguin Press. 2007.
  • The road to Middlemarch : my life with George Eliot. Granta Publications. 2014.

Essays and reporting

References
  1. iTunes (14 January 2019). "Always Take Notes". Always Take Notes (Podcast). Always Take Notes.
  2. Mead, Rebecca (30 January 2014). The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot. Granta Publications. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-84708-746-1.
  3. Mead, Rebecca (20 August 2018). "A New Citizen Decides to Leave the Tumult of Trump's America". The New Yorker. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  4. Mead, Rebecca (28 February 2014). "George Eliot, Middlemarch and me". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  5. "Rebecca Mead". The New Yorker. The New Yorker. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  6. Cooke, Rachel (16 March 2014). "The Road to Middlemarch review – Rebecca Mead's overly earnest thoughts on a masterpiece". The Observer. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  7. Wilson, Frances (24 March 2014). "The Road to Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead, review". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  8. Oates, Joyce Carol (23 January 2014). "Deep Reader". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  9. Mary Beard.
  10. Online version is titled "A hip-hop interpretation of the Founding Fathers".
  11. Online version is titled "Happy ugly feet".
  12. Online version is titled "Joanna Hogg's self-portrait of a lady".
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