Educated: A Memoir - Hardcover

Westover, Tara

 
9780399590504: Educated: A Memoir
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0399590501 ISBN 13: 9780399590504
Publisher: Random House Inc, 2018

Synopsis

Traces the author''s experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family''s paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.

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About the Author

Tara Westover is an American historian and memoirist. Her first book, Educated, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and remained on the list, in hardcover, for more than two years. The book, a memoir of her upbringing in rural Idaho, was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. To date it has been translated into more than forty-five languages. The New York Times named Educated one of the 10 Best Books of 2018, and the American Booksellers Association voted Educated the Nonfiction Book of the Year. For her staggering impact, Time named Westover one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2019. Westover holds a PhD in intellectual history from Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2019 she was the Rosenthal Writer in Residence at Harvard University. In 2023, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden.

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Publisher
Random House Inc
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0399590501
ISBN 13 
9780399590504
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
334

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