Tara Westover

Tara Westover
Born September 1986 (age 32)[1]
Clifton, Idaho
Occupation Historian, author
Residence New York City
Education Brigham Young University
Trinity College, Cambridge University (PhD, 2014, intellectual history and political thought)
Subject Memoir
Website
tarawestover.com

Tara Westover (born 1986) is an American historian and author. She is known for her bestselling 2018 book Educated: A Memoir.

Life

Westover was born in Clifton, a small town (pop. 234) in rural Idaho; her parents were Mormon survivalists who homeschooled their seven children haphazardly, with the exception of homesteading crafts and religious texts or devotional literature, yet from which she gained confidence in self-sufficiency and ability to acquire skills.[2] As a teenager, Westover read independently and was able to gain admission to Brigham Young University.[3] Westover graduated from Brigham Young with honours, earned a MPhil on a Gates scholarship at Cambridge University and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University before her return to Cambridge to complete her doctorate in history.[4][5]

Educated: A Memoir

Educated: A Memoir, Hutchinson (U.K.)/Random House (U.S.) ISBN 9780399590504, OCLC 986898537, is an account of Westover's childhood and education.[6][3][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. A portion was excerpted as the autobiographical piece, "What Happened After I Left My Survivalist Family and Went to College" in the February 15, 2018 issue of Time magazine.[14]

Educated was also Longlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence[15] and as of October 2018, had spent 32 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list.[16] In August 2018, former U.S. President Barack Obama named Educated as one of the books on his summer reading list.[17]

References

  1. ↑ Whitworth, Damian (February 17, 2018). "Review: Educated by Tara Westover — from the Mormon boondocks to a Cambridge PhD". The Times.
  2. ↑ Watkiss, Jasmine (2018-03-03). "Woman from survivalist family with no formal education did a PhD at Cambridge". cambridgenews. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  3. 1 2 "A riveting memoir of a brutal upbringing (book review)". The Economist. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  4. ↑ Tara Westover. "PEN America Winter 2018 Authors' Evening with Tara Westover".
  5. ↑ "Memoirist Retraces Her Journey From Survivalist Childhood To Cambridge Ph.D." National Public Radio: Fresh Air. 20 February 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  6. ↑ Hurlburt, Ann (March 2018). "Educated Is a Brutal, One-of-a-Kind Memoir (book review)". The Atlantic. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  7. ↑ Cryer, Dan (23 February 2018). "'Educated' review: Tara Westover's memoir of a childhood with religious extremists, and finding her own voice (book review)". Newsday. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  8. ↑ Educated by Tara Westover | PenguinRandomHouse.com.
  9. ↑ Davies, Review by Helen (2018-02-04). "Book review: Educated by Tara Westover". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  10. ↑ Jordan, Tina (2018-03-02). "Spinning a Brutal Off-the-Grid Childhood into a Gripping Memoir". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  11. ↑ MacGillis, Alec (2018-03-01). "She Didn't Own a Birth Certificate or Go to School. Yet She Went On to Earn a Ph.D." The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  12. ↑ Ciabattari, Jane. "Ten books to read in February". Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  13. ↑ "The 50 most anticipated books of 2018". EW.com. 2017-12-26. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  14. ↑ "What happened after I left my survivalist family and went to college". Time. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  15. ↑ "Awards Longlist | Awards & Grants". www.ala.org. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
  16. ↑ "Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers - The New York Times". Retrieved 2018-10-05.
  17. ↑ Cummings, William (August 20, 2018). "'Factfulness' and 'Educated' among the titles on Obama's summer reading list". USA Today. Retrieved August 28, 2018.


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