Tara Westover was born in 1986 in Idaho, United States. One of the youngest writers. The author, who wrote her works in the form of essays and memoirs, is herself a historian.
Her works were included in the list of the most read books in the New York Times. Author;
· LA Times Book Award
· Jean Stein Book Award from PEN America
· She is also the recipient of many other awards, such as the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Tara Westover (born September 27, 1986) is an American memoirist, essayist and historian. Her memoir Educated (2018) debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the LA Times Book Prize, PEN America's Jean Stein Book Award, and two awards from the National Book Critics Circle Award. The New York Times ranked Educated as one of the 10 Best Books of 2018. Westover was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2019.
Her works, which she wrote based on her own life, were described as the best of the year as well as being the best-selling books.
The life of Tara, the youngest of seven children of a family, that makes you swallow your tongue: Educated
Tara Westover did not have a birth certificate. She had no school enrollment because she had never set foot in a classroom in her life. She didn't have a medical file because her father believed in the apocalypse rather than medical science.
As a child, she watched her Mormon father surrender to bigotry and her brother to violence. And at the age of sixteen, Tara decided to educate herself. Her hunger for knowledge carried her far from the mountains of Idaho, across the oceans, from one continent to another, from Harvard to Cambridge. Why then came the question: “Have I gone too far?”, “Is there still a way back home?”
Educated is a self-constructed story that has garnered great praise from the day it was released, was chosen as the book of the year by many publications, and has been translated into 40 languages so far. Tara Westover tells the story of her family, to whom she attached fierce loyalty, the change she experienced through education, and the grief of separation, with an insight unique to great writers. This is a heartbreaking and hopeful story.