Rebecca Mead Explained

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

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. 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.^[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 and moved back to the United Kingdom in 2018.^{[9] [10]}

Bibliography

Books

• Book: none . Mead, Rebecca . One perfect day : the selling of the American wedding . New York . Penguin Press . 2007 . 9781594200885-->.
• Book: none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . The road to Middlemarch : my life with George Eliot . Granta Publications . 2014 . 978-1-84708-746-1-->.
• Book: none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . Home/land : a memoir of departure and return . 2022.

Chapters

• Book: none . Mead, Rebecca . Eleanor Rigby . Blauner, Andrew . . Blue Rider Press . 2017 . 978-0-7352-1069-1-->.

Essays, reporting and other contributions

• none . Mead, Rebecca . mdy . 15 September 1997 . Fax from the vineyard . The Talk of the Town . The New Yorker . 73 . 27 . 31.
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 29 September 1997 . . The Talk of the Town . The New Yorker . 21 February 2020-->.
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 6 October 1997 . . The Talk of the Town . The New Yorker . 22 May 2020-->.
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 13 October 1997 . . The Talk of the Town . The New Yorker . 3 July 2022-->.
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 10 November 1997 . . The Talk of the Town . The New Yorker . 6 July 2022-->.
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 17 November 1997 . Ink . The Talk of the Town . The New Yorker . 73 . 35 . 37–38.
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 22 December 1997 . Pecking order . The Talk of the Town . The New Yorker . 73 . 40 . 49–50.
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 24 May 2010 . . The Talk of the Town. Feathers Dept. . The New Yorker . 86 . 14 . 20, 22 . 3 July 2022-->.
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 24 May 2010 . . The Wayward Press . The New Yorker . 86 . 14 . 26–32 . 6 July 2022-->.
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 1 September 2014 . . Profiles . The New Yorker . 90 . 25 . 30–36 . 31 July 2019-->.
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 9 February 2015 . . Onward and Upward with the Arts . The New Yorker . 90 . 47 . 48–57 . 13 September 2019-->. ^[11]
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 23 March 2015 . . On and Off the Avenue . The New Yorker . 91 . 5 . 42–48 . 21 February 2020-->. ^[12]
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 7 December 2015 . . The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life . The New Yorker . 91 . 39 . 26 . 22 May 2021-->. ^[13]
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 25 April 2016 . . The Talk of the Town. The Bench . The New Yorker . 92 . 11 . 35 . 1 February 2023-->. ^[14]
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 20 March 2017 . . Onward and Upward with the Arts . The New Yorker . 93 . 5 . 44–51 . 14 April 2023-->. ^[15]
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 24 April 2017 . . The Talk of the Town. Dept. of Big Questions . The New Yorker . 93 . 10 . 37–38 . 12 June 2022-->. ^[16]
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 8 May 2017 . . The Talk of the Town. The Creative Life . The New Yorker . 93 . 12 . 18–19 . 25 April 2022-->. ^[17]
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 20 May 2019 . . Onward and Upward with the Arts . The New Yorker . 95 . 13 . 28–34 . 13 September 2019-->. ^[18]
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . 27 September 2021 . . The New Yorker . 97 . 30 . 44–57 . 19 December 2022-->. ^[19]
• none . Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . April 25 – May 2, 2022 . . Onward and Upward with the Arts . The New Yorker . 98 . 10 . 48–55 . 2023-05-17-->. ^[20]
• Mead, Rebecca . 1 . mdy . August 22, 2022 . . Profiles . The New Yorker . 98 . 25 . 42–53 . 2024-08-21-->. ^[21]

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Notes

Notes and References

1. Always Take Notes . Always Take Notes . Always Take Notes . iTunes . 14 January 2019.
2. Book: Mead, Rebecca. The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot. 30 January 2014. Granta Publications. 978-1-84708-746-1. 178.
3. Mead . Rebecca . A New Citizen Decides to Leave the Tumult of Trump's America . 10 February 2019 . The New Yorker . 20 August 2018.
4. News: Mead . Rebecca . George Eliot, Middlemarch and me . 10 February 2019 . The Guardian . 28 February 2014.
5. Rebecca Mead . The New Yorker . 10 February 2019.
6. News: Cooke . Rachel . The Road to Middlemarch review – Rebecca Mead's overly earnest thoughts on a masterpiece . 10 February 2019 . The Observer . 16 March 2014.
7. News: Wilson . Frances . The Road to Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead, review . 10 February 2019 . The Daily Telegraph . 24 March 2014.
8. News: Oates . Joyce Carol . Deep Reader . 10 February 2019 . The New York Times . 23 January 2014.
9. News: Rothfeld . Becca . 8 February 2022 . Politics Drove Rebecca Mead From Her Adopted Home and Into Her Next Book . New York Times . 25 February 2022.
10. News: Hayes . Stephanie . 23 February 2022 . Moving Back Home Isn't Just a Fallback Plan . The Atlantic . 25 February 2022.
11. Online version is titled "A hip-hop interpretation of the Founding Fathers".
12. Online version is titled "Happy ugly feet".
13. Title in the online table of contents is "Marlis Petersen ends on a high note".
14. Title in the online table of contents is "'Custody,' a film of Family Court".
15. Online version is titled "A protest musical for the Trump era".
16. Online version is titled "When kids philosophize".
17. Online version is titled "Terence Davies’s poetic melancholy".
18. Online version is titled "Joanna Hogg's self-portrait of a lady".
19. Title in the online table of contents is "Harris Reed’s gender-fluid fashion".
20. Online version is titled "Transforming trees into skyscrapers".
21. Online version is titled "Anish Kapoor's material values".