Rebecca Mead

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

Rebecca Mead was born in London, England.^[1] When she was three years old she relocated with her family to the seaside town of Weymouth in Dorset, where she grew up.^[1] Mead's father was a civil servant.^[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 for a master's degree in journalism at New York University.^[3]

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

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 was naturalised as an American citizen in 2011^[3] and moved back to the United Kingdom in 2018.^[3][9][10]

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2019)

• Mead, Rebecca (2007). One perfect day : the selling of the American wedding. New York: Penguin Press.
• — (2014). The road to Middlemarch : my life with George Eliot. Granta Publications.
• — (2022). Home/land : a memoir of departure and return.

Chapters

• Mead, Rebecca (2017). "Eleanor Rigby". In Blauner, Andrew (ed.). In their lives : great writers on great Beatles songs. Blue Rider Press.

• Mead, Rebecca (September 15, 1997). "Fax from the vineyard". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. 73 (27): 31.
• — (September 29, 1997). "The nostalgic gourmet". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker.
• — (October 6, 1997). "The pictures". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker.
• — (October 13, 1997). "The good old days". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker.
• — (November 10, 1997). "Rag trade". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker.
• — (November 17, 1997). "Ink". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. 73 (35): 37–38.
• — (December 22, 1997). "Pecking order". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. 73 (40): 49–50.
• — (May 24, 2010). "Fill in the blank". The Talk of the Town. Feathers Dept. The New Yorker. 86 (14): 20, 22.
• — (May 24, 2010). "Rage machine : Andrew Breitbart's empire of bluster". The Wayward Press. The New Yorker. 86 (14): 26–32.
• — (September 1, 2014). "The troll slayer : a Cambridge classicist takes on her sexist detractors". Profiles. The New Yorker. 90 (25): 30–36.
• — (February 9, 2015). "All about the Hamiltons". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 90 (47): 48–57.^[a]
• — (March 23, 2015). "Sole cycle : the homely Birkenstock gets a fashion makeover". On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. 91 (5): 42–48.^[b]
• — (December 7, 2015). "The scream". The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 91 (39): 26.^[c]
• — (April 25, 2016). "Counterparts". The Talk of the Town. The Bench. The New Yorker. 92 (11): 35.^[d]
• — (March 20, 2017). "Rise up : Alex Timbers directs 'Joan of Arc,' a musical call to arms for the Trump era". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 93 (5): 44–51.^[e]
• — (April 24, 2017). "Chewing it over". The Talk of the Town. Dept. of Big Questions. The New Yorker. 93 (10): 37–38.^[f]
• — (May 8, 2017). "Under a bushel". The Talk of the Town. The Creative Life. The New Yorker. 93 (12): 18–19.^[g]
• — (May 20, 2019). "Self-portrait of a lady". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 95 (13): 28–34.^[h]
• — (September 27, 2021). "Height of glamour : how the designer Harris Reed helps Harry Styles and Solange play with masculinity and femininity". The New Yorker. 97 (30): 44–57.^[i]
• — (April 25 – May 2, 2022). "Norwegian wood : in Scandinavia, ecologically minded architects are building skyscrapers with pillars of pine and spruce". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 98 (10): 48–55.^[j]
• — (August 22, 2022). "Goop : Anish Kapoor has made a fortune sculpting with unusual materials". Profiles. The New Yorker. 98 (25): 42–53.^[k]
• — (February 13–20, 2023). "The merry widow : the ninety-year-old aristocrat known for her cheeky accounts of the British élite". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 99 (1): 18–24.^[l]

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