Rebecca Mead is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She has written for many newspapers and magazines and is the author of One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding.
Her new book is The Road to Middlemarch : My Life with George Eliot (Text Publishing, ISBN: 9781922079329), detailing her relationship with the 1874 novel, which she has re-read every five years since her first encounter at the age of 17.
