Tara Westover
American memoirist and historian
Tara Westover is an American memoirist, essayist and historian. She wrote Educated, a memoir about growing up without school and later earning a PhD.
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American Born 1986 in Clifton, United States
About Tara Westover
Tara Westover was born in Idaho in 1986 and did not attend school as a child. She first entered a classroom at seventeen, then spent about a decade studying. She earned a BA from Brigham Young University in 2008 and won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She completed an MPhil at Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, was a visiting fellow at Harvard University in 2010, and received a PhD in history from Cambridge in 2014. Her memoir Educated appeared in 2018 and is her first book. It debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list, and the paper named it one of the 10 best books of that year. Time included her among its 100 most influential people of 2019. She is American and lives in the UK.