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==Early life and education==
Mayer was born in [[New York City]].<ref name=NewYorkerBio/> Her mother, Meredith (née Nevins), is a painter, print-maker and former president of the Manhattan Graphics Center. Her father, [[William Mayer (composer)|William Mayer]], was a composer.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EWERAQAAMAAJ&q=MAYER+NEVINS |title=Current Biography Yearbook, 2008|author=Maxine Block, Anna Herthe Rothe, Marjorie Dent Candee, Charles Moritz |date=September 15, 2017 |website=[[Books.Google.com]] |publisher=H. W. Wilson Co. }}</ref> Her paternal great-great-grandfather was [[Emanuel Lehman]], one of the founders of [[Lehman Brothers]]. Her maternal grandparents were Mary Fleming (Richardson) and [[Allan Nevins]], a historian and [[John D. Rockefeller
Mayer attended two non-denominational secondary schools: [[Ethical Culture Fieldston School|Fieldston]], in the northwest area of the [[Bronx]] borough of New York City; and—as an exchange student in 1972-1973—[[Bedales]], a boarding school in the village of [[Steep, Hampshire]], England.
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In 2012, Mayer received the [[Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting]] for her coverage of North Carolina state politics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newhouse.syr.edu/Newsroom/read_news.cfm?id=733|title=Newhouse honors The New Yorker's Jane Mayer with Toner Prize|last=Loughlin|first=Wendy S.|date=March 2, 2012|website=S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625030308/https://newhouse.syr.edu/Newsroom/read_news.cfm?id=733|archive-date=2012-06-25|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2020, Mayer was awarded the [[Mirror Awards|Mirror Award]] for the ''Best Single Article/Story'' for her ''New Yorker'' article on detailing
==Personal life==
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