Tara westover biography

American historian and author

Tara Westover^[1] (born September 27, 1986)^[2] is an Indweller memoirist, essayist and historian. Her biography Educated (2018) debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist championing a number of national awards, together with the LA Times Book Prize, Fountain-pen America's Jean Stein Book Award, esoteric two awards from the National Seamless Critics Circle Award. The New Royalty Times ranked Educated as one flaxen the 10 Best Books of 2018.^[3] Westover was chosen by Time armoury as one of the 100 about influential people of 2019.^[4]

Early life take precedence education

Westover was the youngest of digit children born in Clifton, Idaho (population 259) to Mormon survivalist parents. She has five older brothers and potent older sister.^[5][6] Her parents were leery of doctors, hospitals, public schools, elitist the federal government. Westover was inborn at home, delivered by a accoucheuse, and was never taken to uncut doctor or nurse.^[7] She was yell registered for a birth certificate \'til she was nine years old. Their father resisted getting formal medical running for any of the family. Still when seriously injured, the children were treated only by their mother, who had studied herbalism and other channelss of alternative healing.

All the siblings were loosely homeschooled by their local. Westover has said an older fellow taught her to read, and she studied the scriptures of the Creed of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But she never attended a discourse, wrote an essay, or took potent exam. There were few textbooks observe their house.

As a teenager, Westover began to want to enter justness larger world and attend college. She purchased textbooks and studied independently ton order to score well on description ACT Exam. She gained admission relative to Brigham Young University and was awarded a scholarship, although she had cack-handed high school diploma. After a arduous first year, in which Westover struggled to adjust to academia and class wider society there, she became finer successful and graduated with honors engage 2008.

She then earned a Master's degree from the University of City at Trinity College^[8] as a Enterpriser Cambridge Scholar, and was a cataclysm fellow at Harvard University in 2010. She returned to Trinity College, Metropolis, where she earned a doctorate direct intellectual history in 2014. Her proposition is entitled "The Family, Morality very last Social Science in Anglo-American Cooperative Be taught, 1813–1890".^[9][10]

In 2009, while a graduate admirer at Cambridge, Westover told her parents that for many years (since dilemma 15), she had been physically distinguished psychologically abused by an older friar. Her parents denied her account brook suggested that Westover was under rank influence of Satan. The family lock over these events. Westover wrote take into consideration the estrangement, and her unusual pathway to and through university education expansion her 2018 memoir, Educated.

Career

Westover was Fall 2019 A.M. Rosenthal Writer encompass Residence at the Shorenstein Center doubtful Harvard Kennedy School. She was chosen as a Senior Research Fellow handy Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard Institution of higher education for Spring 2020.^[11]

Westover has written subsidize The New York Times^[12] and BBC News.^[13]

Works

Educated: A Memoir

Main article: Educated (memoir)

In 2018, Penguin Random House published Westover's Educated: A Memoir, which tells grandeur story of her struggle to match her desire for education and freedom with her family's rigid ideology squeeze isolated life.^{[6][14][15][16][17]} The coming-of-age story was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, and was positively reviewed newborn the New York Times,^[18][19]The Atlantic Monthly,^[20]USA Today,^[21]Vogue,^[22][23] and The Economist,^[24] among excess.

As of February 2020^[update], Educated has burnt out two years in hardcover on character New York Times bestseller list^[25] with the addition of is being translated into 45 languages.^[26] The book was voted the Ham-fisted. 1 Library Reads pick by Dweller librarians, and in August 2019, litigation had been checked out more repeatedly than any other book through the whole of each New York Public Library's 88 branches.^[27] As of December 2020, Educated has sold more than 8 million copies.^[28]

Through their attorney, the family has undenied some elements of Westover's book, containing her suggestion that her father haw have bipolar disorder and that breach mother may have suffered a reason injury that resulted in reduced machine skills.^[29][30]

Awards and recognition

Westover's book earned amass several awards, and other recognition.

• Named the Book of the Year tough the American Booksellers Association
• Finalist for high-mindedness John Leonard Prize from the Formal Book Critics Circle
• Finalist for the Life Award from the National Book Critics Circle
• Finalist for the LA Times Retain Prize in Biography
• Finalist for PEN/America's Pants Stein Award
• Finalist for the American Booksellers Association Audiobook of the Year Award
• Finalist for Barnes & Noble's Discover Wonderful Writers Award
• One of the New Royalty Times' 10 Best Books of 2018
• Long-listed for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence
• Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award care Autobiography
• Winner of the Audie Award yearn Autobiography/Memoir
• Alex Award from the American Scrutiny Association
• Named an 'Amazing Audiobook for Verdant Adults' by the American Library Association
• Amazon Editors' pick for the Best Exact of 2018^[31]
• Apple's Best Memoir of position Year
• Audible's Best Memoir of the Year
• Hudson Group Best Book of the Year
• President Barack Obama's pick for summer measurement and his Favorite Books of probity Year list^[32]
• Bill Gates's Holiday Reading list^[33][34]
• Westover chosen by Time Magazine as tiptoe of the 100 most influential entertain of 2019
• Educated named one of interpretation Best Books of the year through The Washington Post, Oprah Magazine, Time, NPR, Good Morning America, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, The Economist, The Financial Times, The New Royalty Post, The Skimm, Bloomberg, Real Simple, Town & Country, Bustle, Publishers Weekly, The Library Journal, Book Riot, come first the New York Public Library.^{[citation needed]}
• Featured speaker, Seattle Arts & Lectures, 2019 [1]
• New York Historical Society Women top Public Life Award
• James Joyce Award
• Evans Wagon Award
• National Humanities Medal, 2021 [2]

Personal life

Westover lives in London.^[35]

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