About the Author
George Eliot was the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, an English Victorian author whose major works include The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.
About the Introducer
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 Zizek, 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.