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

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Early life and education

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]

Career

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]

Personal life

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

Bibliography

Books

Chapters

Essays, reporting and other contributions

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Notes
  1. ↑ Online version is titled "A hip-hop interpretation of the Founding Fathers".
  2. ↑ Online version is titled "Happy ugly feet".
  3. ↑ Title in the online table of contents is "Marlis Petersen ends on a high note".
  4. ↑ Title in the online table of contents is "'Custody,' a film of Family Court".
  5. ↑ Online version is titled "A protest musical for the Trump era".
  6. ↑ Online version is titled "When kids philosophize".
  7. ↑ Online version is titled "Terence Davies’s poetic melancholy".
  8. ↑ Online version is titled "Joanna Hogg's self-portrait of a lady".
  9. ↑ Title in the online table of contents is "Harris Reed’s gender-fluid fashion".
  10. ↑ Online version is titled "Transforming trees into skyscrapers".
  11. ↑ Online version is titled "Anish Kapoor's material values".
  12. ↑ Online version is titled "Oldest living aristocratic widow tells all".

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 iTunes (14 January 2019). "Always Take Notes". Always Take Notes (Podcast). Always Take Notes.
  2. ↑ Mead, Rebecca (2014). The road to Middlemarch : my life with George Eliot. Granta Publications. p. 178.
  3. 1 2 3 4 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. 1 2 3 Mead, Rebecca (28 February 2014). "George Eliot, Middlemarch and me". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  5. ↑ "Rebecca Mead". 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. ↑ Rothfeld, Becca (8 February 2022). "Politics Drove Rebecca Mead From Her Adopted Home and Into Her Next Book". New York Times. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  10. ↑ Hayes, Stephanie (23 February 2022). "Moving Back Home Isn't Just a Fallback Plan". The Atlantic. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
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