Rebecca Mead
Rebecca Mead (born 24 September 1966) is an English writer and journalist.
Early life and education
[edit]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
[edit]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]
Personal life
[edit]Mead was naturalised as an American citizen in 2011[3] and moved back to the United Kingdom in 2018.[3][9][10]
Bibliography
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Books
[edit]- Mead, Rebecca (2007). One perfect day : the selling of the American wedding. New York: Penguin Press.
- — (2014). The road to Middlemarch : my life with George Eliot. Granta Publications.
- — (2022). Home/land : a memoir of departure and return.
- Chapters
- Mead, Rebecca (2017). "Eleanor Rigby". In Blauner, Andrew (ed.). In their lives : great writers on great Beatles songs. Blue Rider Press.
Essays, reporting and other contributions
[edit]- Mead, Rebecca (September 15, 1997). "Fax from the vineyard". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. 73 (27): 31.
- — (September 29, 1997). "The nostalgic gourmet". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker.
- — (October 6, 1997). "The pictures". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker.
- — (October 13, 1997). "The good old days". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker.
- — (November 10, 1997). "Rag trade". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker.
- — (November 17, 1997). "Ink". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. 73 (35): 37–38.
- — (December 22, 1997). "Pecking order". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. 73 (40): 49–50.
- — (May 24, 2010). "Fill in the blank". The Talk of the Town. Feathers Dept. The New Yorker. 86 (14): 20, 22.
- — (May 24, 2010). "Rage machine : Andrew Breitbart's empire of bluster". The Wayward Press. The New Yorker. 86 (14): 26–32.
- — (September 1, 2014). "The troll slayer : a Cambridge classicist takes on her sexist detractors". Profiles. The New Yorker. 90 (25): 30–36.
- — (February 9, 2015). "All about the Hamiltons". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 90 (47): 48–57.[a]
- — (March 23, 2015). "Sole cycle : the homely Birkenstock gets a fashion makeover". On and Off the Avenue. The New Yorker. 91 (5): 42–48.[b]
- — (December 7, 2015). "The scream". The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life. The New Yorker. 91 (39): 26.[c]
- — (April 25, 2016). "Counterparts". The Talk of the Town. The Bench. The New Yorker. 92 (11): 35.[d]
- — (March 20, 2017). "Rise up : Alex Timbers directs 'Joan of Arc,' a musical call to arms for the Trump era". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 93 (5): 44–51.[e]
- — (April 24, 2017). "Chewing it over". The Talk of the Town. Dept. of Big Questions. The New Yorker. 93 (10): 37–38.[f]
- — (May 8, 2017). "Under a bushel". The Talk of the Town. The Creative Life. The New Yorker. 93 (12): 18–19.[g]
- — (May 20, 2019). "Self-portrait of a lady". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 95 (13): 28–34.[h]
- — (September 27, 2021). "Height of glamour : how the designer Harris Reed helps Harry Styles and Solange play with masculinity and femininity". The New Yorker. 97 (30): 44–57.[i]
- — (April 25 – May 2, 2022). "Norwegian wood : in Scandinavia, ecologically minded architects are building skyscrapers with pillars of pine and spruce". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 98 (10): 48–55.[j]
- — (August 22, 2022). "Goop : Anish Kapoor has made a fortune sculpting with unusual materials". Profiles. The New Yorker. 98 (25): 42–53.[k]
- — (February 13–20, 2023). "The merry widow : the ninety-year-old aristocrat known for her cheeky accounts of the British élite". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 99 (1): 18–24.[l]
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- Notes
- ^ 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".
- ^ Title in the online table of contents is "'Custody,' a film of Family Court".
- ^ Online version is titled "A protest musical for the Trump era".
- ^ Online version is titled "When kids philosophize".
- ^ Online version is titled "Terence Davies’s poetic melancholy".
- ^ Online version is titled "Joanna Hogg's self-portrait of a lady".
- ^ Title in the online table of contents is "Harris Reed’s gender-fluid fashion".
- ^ Online version is titled "Transforming trees into skyscrapers".
- ^ Online version is titled "Anish Kapoor's material values".
- ^ Online version is titled "Oldest living aristocratic widow tells all".
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d iTunes (14 January 2019). "Always Take Notes". Always Take Notes (Podcast). Always Take Notes.
- ^ Mead, Rebecca (2014). The road to Middlemarch : my life with George Eliot. Granta Publications. p. 178.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ Rothfeld, Becca (8 February 2022). "Politics Drove Rebecca Mead From Her Adopted Home and Into Her Next Book". New York Times. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Hayes, Stephanie (23 February 2022). "Moving Back Home Isn't Just a Fallback Plan". The Atlantic. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
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