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Bookmark or Share- Tara Westover Likes to Read Herself to Sleep, When She CanTara 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...
- About — Tara WestoverTara 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. A memoir of her upbringing in rural Idaho, the book was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the L.A. Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jean ...
- Educated (book) - WikipediaEducated 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.
- Tara Westover | The National Endowment for the HumanitiesTara Westover, for turning American life into literature. Tara Westover’s memoirs of family, religion, and the transformative power of education, has moved millions of readers and served as a powerful example of how the humanities can set people—and a Nation—free.
- What does Tara Westover’s family say about ‘Educated’? It’s complicated ...BYU grad, ‘Educated’ author Tara Westover talks family estrangement, writing memoir. Q&A: BYU grad and 'Educated' author Tara Westover talks difference between forgiveness and reconciliation. Timid and confused, she humiliated herself in class when she didn’t know what the Holocaust was.
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