Rebecca Mead (born 24 September 1966) is an English writer and journalist.
Early life and education Rebecca Mead was born in London, England. When she was three years old she relocated with her family to the seaside town of Weymouth in Dorset, where she grew up. Mead's father was a civil servant. As a teenager she became interested in left-wing politics.
Mead studied English literature at the University of Oxford.
After graduating from Oxford she won a full scholarship to study for a master's degree in journalism at New York University.
Career While at NYU, Mead was employed as an intern by New York Magazine. After graduation the magazine employed her as a fact checker. After a few years she was promoted to features writer. She joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1997.
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.
Personal life Mead was naturalised as an American citizen in 2011 and moved back to the United Kingdom in 2018.
Bibliography
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Chapters
Essays, reporting and other contributions
Online version is titled "A hip-hop interpretation of the Founding Fathers". Online version is titled "Happy ugly feet". Title in the online table of contents is "Marlis Petersen ends on a high note". Title in the online table of contents is "'Custody,' a film of Family Court". Online version is titled "A protest musical for the Trump era". Online version is titled "When kids philosophize". Online version is titled "Terence Davies’s poetic melancholy". Online version is titled "Joanna Hogg's self-portrait of a lady". Title in the online table of contents is "Harris Reed’s gender-fluid fashion". Online version is titled "Transforming trees into skyscrapers". Online version is titled "Anish Kapoor's material values". Online version is titled "Oldest living aristocratic widow tells all". Title in the online table of contents is "Ridding the National Portrait Gallery of its gentlemen's-club vibe". Online version is titled "Menopause is having a moment".
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