Tara Westover - Wikipedia

Tara Westover - Wikipedia
Tara Westover
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Tara Westover
Born September 1986 (age 31)[1]
Clifton, Idaho
Occupation Historian, author
Residence Cambridge, England[2]
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, known for her 2018 book Educated: A Memoir, a "#1 New York Times Best Seller"[3] that received positive reviews in the London Times,[4] the New York Timesand the New York Times Book Review.[5][6] 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.[7]Westover's debut has been listed among the BBC's "ten books to read in February (2018)"[8] and Entertainment Weekly's "most anticipated books of 2018."[9]



Contents [hide]
1Life
2Educated: A Memoir
3References
4External links


Life[edit]

Westover was born in 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.[10] As a teenager, Westover read independently and was able to gain admission to Brigham Young University.[11] 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.[12][13]

Educated: A Memoir[edit]

Educated: A Memoir, Hutchinson (U.K.)/Random House (U.S.) ISBN 9780399590504, OCLC 986898537, is an account of Westover's childhood and education.[14][11][15]
References[edit]

Jump up^ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/review-educated-by-tara-westover-from-the-mormon-boondocks-to-a-cambridge-phd-h6qtl2d6c
Jump up^ "Tara Westover BIO". tarawestover.com. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
Jump up^ Educated by Tara Westover | PenguinRandomHouse.com.
Jump up^ Davies, Review by Helen (2018-02-04). "Book review: Educated by Tara Westover". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
Jump up^ 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.
Jump up^ 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.
Jump up^ "What happened after I left my survivalist family and went to college". Time. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
Jump up^ Ciabattari, Jane. "Ten books to read in February". Retrieved 2018-03-19.
Jump up^ "The 50 most anticipated books of 2018". EW.com. 2017-12-26. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
Jump up^ Watkiss, Jasmine (2018-03-03). "Woman from survivalist family with no formal education did a PhD at Cambridge". cambridgenews. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
^ Jump up to:a b "A riveting memoir of a brutal upbringing (book review)". The Economist. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
Jump up^ Tara Westover. "PEN America Winter 2018 Authors' Evening with Tara Westover".
Jump up^ "Memoirist Retraces Her Journey From Survivalist Childhood To Cambridge Ph.D."National Public Radio: Fresh Air. 20 February 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
Jump up^ Hurlburt, Ann (March 2018). "Educated Is a Brutal, One-of-a-Kind Memoir (book review)". The Atlantic. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
Jump up^ 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.
External links[edit]
Official website
Appearance on C-SPAN