Rebecca Mead (born 24 September 1966) is an English writer and journalist.
Early life and education
Rebecca Mead was born in London, England.
When she was three years old she relocated with her family to the seaside town of
Weymouth in
Dorset
Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...
, where she grew up.
Mead's father was a
civil servant
The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...
.
As a teenager she became interested in
left-wing politics
Left-wing politics describes the range of Ideology#Political%20ideologies, political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically in ...
.
Mead studied English literature at the
University of Oxford
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After graduating from Oxford she won a full scholarship to study for a
master's degree
A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice. in journalism at
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, the ...
.
Career
While at NYU, Mead was employed as an
intern
An internship is a period of work experience offered by an organization for a limited period of time. Once confined to medical graduates, internship is used practice for a wide range of placements in businesses, non-profit organizations and gover ...
by ''
New York Magazine
''New York'' is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to ''The New Yorker'', ...
''.
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
''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...
'' as a staff writer in 1997.
Mead published ''My Life In Middlemarch'' (''The Road to Middlemarch'' in the UK) in 2014. A personal study of
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wro ...
's
best-known novel, it received mixed reviews.
Personal life
Mead was naturalised as an American citizen in 2011
and moved back to the United Kingdom in 2018.
Bibliography
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[Online version is titled "A hip-hop interpretation of the Founding Fathers".]
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[Online version is titled "Happy ugly feet".]
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[Title in the online table of contents is "Marlis Petersen ends on a high note".]
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[Title in the online table of contents is "'Custody,' a film of Family Court".]
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[Online version is titled "A protest musical for the Trump era".]
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[Online version is titled "When kids philosophize".]
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[Online version is titled "Terence Davies’s poetic melancholy".]
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[Online version is titled "Joanna Hogg's self-portrait of a lady".]
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[Title in the online table of contents is "]Harris Reed
Harris Reed is a British-American fashion designer and creative director for French fashion house Nina Ricci. He is the son of the Oscar-winning, British documentary film producer Nicholas Reed and the American model and candlemaker Lynette Ree ...
’s gender-fluid fashion".
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[Online version is titled "Transforming trees into skyscrapers".]
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References
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1966 births
20th-century British journalists
20th-century English women writers
21st-century British journalists
21st-century English women writers
Alumni of the University of Oxford
English emigrants to the United States
English women journalists
Living people
New York (magazine) people
New York University alumni
People from Weymouth, Dorset
People with acquired American citizenship
The New Yorker staff writers
Writers from London
British women memoirists