Rebecca Mead

Rebecca Mead has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1997. She is the author of "One Perfect Day" (2007) and "My Life in Middlemarch" (2014), a New York Times best seller. She has served as a McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University and is the recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in London with her husband and son.