Rebecca Mead

Rebecca Mead joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1997. She has profiled many subjects, among them Lin-Manuel Miranda, Margaret Atwood, Nico Muhly, Slavoj Žižek, and Mary Beard. She has also written more than two hundred Talk of the Town stories and is a frequent contributor to Cultural Comment on newyorker.com. She is the author of One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding and My Life in Middlemarch. She lives in London.