Rebecca Mead
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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]
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]
