Rebecca Mead

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

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, where she grew up. Mead's father was a civil servant. As a teenager she became interested in left-wing politics.

Mead studied English literature at the University of Oxford.

After graduating from Oxford she won a full scholarship to study for a master's degree in journalism at New York University.

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.

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.

Mead was naturalised as an American citizen in 2011 and moved back to the United Kingdom in 2018.

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