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Tara Westover (born September 27, 1986) is an American memoirist, essayist and historian. Her memoir Educated (2018) debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the LA Times Book Prize, PEN America 's Jean Stein Book Award , and two awards from the National Book ...
Tara Westover is an American historian and memoirist. Her first book, Educated, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and remained on the list, in hardcover, for more than two years.
Educated is a 2018 memoir by the American author Tara Westover. Westover recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family in order to go to college, and emphasizes the importance of education in enlarging her world.
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Feb 20, 2018 · Tara Westover’s book “Educated” is a distressing & discomforting - alarming & startling exposure of her Mormon fundamentalist family. “Educated” is a memoir of nonfiction - but names and identifying details have been changed.
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Dec 3, 2018 · Bill Gates discusses the memoir 'Educated' with author Tara Westover whose grit propelled her from a rural Idaho upbringing to studying at Cambridge University.
Jul 27, 2023 · Tara Westover Likes to Read Herself to Sleep, When She Can. “My thinking is that reading will focus my mind, bring a hush over the chaos of the day so I can drift off,” says the author of the...