Author

Tara Westover

Tara Westover is the American historian and memoirist whose Educated (2018) recounted her upbringing in a survivalist Idaho family that kept her out of school until she was seventeen, and her subsequent education through Brigham Young University and Cambridge. PEN/Bingham winner.

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5.0

First published

2018

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Educated

by Tara Westover

Educated by Tara Westover 2018 review. The memoir of growing up in a survivalist Idaho family that kept her out of school until age seventeen, and her subsequent education through Brigham Young University and Cambridge. The PEN/Bingham winner and one of the canonical contemporary memoirs.