Rebecca Mead
Rebecca Mead is an English writer and journalist.Life and career
Rebecca Mead was born in London. When she was three years old she relocated with her family to Weymouth, Dorset, where she was raised.
Mead's father was a civil servant, and she has described her background as lower middle class. As a teenager she became interested in left-wing politics.
She studied English literature at the University of Oxford.
Mead graduated from Oxford and won a full scholarship to study a master's degree in journalism at New York University. She would later comment, "studying journalism in a classroom, it turned out, was mostly absurd".
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.
Mead joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1997.
Mead was naturalised as an American citizen in 2011.
Mead published My Life In Middlemarch in 2014. A personal study of George Eliot's best-known novel, it received mixed reviews.
Mead relocated to Britain in 2018.Books
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