Rebecca Mead
Rebecca Mead (born 24 September 1966) is an English writer and journalist.
Life and career[]
Rebecca Mead was born in London.[1] When she was three years old she relocated with her family to the seaside town of Weymouth in Dorset, where she was raised.[1]
Mead's father was a civil servant, and she has described her background as lower middle class.[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 a master's degree in journalism at New York University.[3] She would later comment, "studying journalism in a classroom, it turned out, was mostly absurd".[4] 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]
Mead joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1997.[5]
Mead was naturalised as an American citizen in 2011.[3]
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 relocated back to Britain in 2018.[3]
Bibliography[]
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Books[]
- One perfect day : the selling of the American wedding. New York: Penguin Press. 2007.
- The road to Middlemarch : my life with George Eliot. Granta Publications. 2014.
Essays and reporting[]
- "Fax from the vineyard". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. 73 (27): 31. September 15, 1997.
- "The nostalgic gourmet". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. September 29, 1997.
- "The pictures". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. October 6, 1997.
- "The troll slayer : a Cambridge classicist takes on her sexist detractors". Profiles. The New Yorker. 90 (25): 30–36. September 1, 2014.[9]
- "All about the Hamiltons". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 90 (47): 48–57. February 9, 2015.[10]
- "Sole cycle : the homely Birkenstock gets a fashion makeover". On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. 91 (5): 42–48. March 23, 2015.[11]
- "The scream". The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 91 (39): 26. December 7, 2015.[12]
- "Self-portrait of a lady". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 95 (13): 28–34. May 20, 2019.[13]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d iTunes (14 January 2019). "Always Take Notes". Always Take Notes (Podcast). Always Take Notes.
- ^ Mead, Rebecca (30 January 2014). The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot. Granta Publications. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-84708-746-1.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Mead, Rebecca (20 August 2018). "A New Citizen Decides to Leave the Tumult of Trump's America". The New Yorker. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Mead, Rebecca (28 February 2014). "George Eliot, Middlemarch and me". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
- ^ "Rebecca Mead". The New Yorker. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Wilson, Frances (24 March 2014). "The Road to Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead, review". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
- ^ Oates, Joyce Carol (23 January 2014). "Deep Reader". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
- ^ Mary Beard.
- ^ 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".
- ^ Online version is titled "Joanna Hogg's self-portrait of a lady".
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