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Author Bio
Birth—ca. 1974 (?)
Where—London, England, UK
Raised—Southwest England
Education—Oxford University; New York University
Curently—lives in New York, New York, USA


Rebecca Mead has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1997. Born in England, she migrated to New York in her twenties where she attended New York University. She began her career as a fact-checker at New York Magazine and later became a contributing editor.

She has also contributed to many newspapers and magazines, including the Sunday Times of London, New York Times Book Review, and London Review of Books. In 2007 she published her first took, One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding (2007), and in 2014 came out with her second, My Life in Middlemarch (2014). Mead lives in Brooklyn, New York City. (From the publisher.)