Tara Westover
AmericanMemoirHistoryBiographyb. 1986
Tara Westover is an American memoirist, essayist, and historian. She is best known for her 2018 memoir, Educated, which chronicles her upbringing in a survivalist Mormon family in rural Idaho, her lack of formal schooling, and her eventual journey into academia, culminating in a PhD in intellectual history from the University of Cambridge.
Awards
['National Humanities Medal (2021)', 'Alex Award (2019)', '15 Bytes Book Award for Creative Nonfiction (2019)']
Notable Works
['Educated']
