Tara Westover

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Tara Westover (2018)

Tara Westover (born September 27, 1986 in Clifton , Idaho ) is an American historian and writer. She was best known for her autobiography Educated: A Memoir (German: “Liberated: How education opened up the world to me”).

Life

Tara Westover was the youngest of seven siblings. She grew up the daughter of radical fundamentalist Mormons who taught their children themselves, with an emphasis on prepper and household skills , as well as religious texts. Westover first encountered a girl who was not home schooled but attended school when she was 13. She has been mistreated and injured by one of her older brothers since she was 15 years old without her parents intervening.

At 17, Westover left her family and educated herself so that she was admitted to Brigham Young University . She graduated with honors and received a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge with the support of a Gates Scholarship . Westover was a visiting fellow at Harvard University in 2010 before earning her PhD in history from Trinity College , Cambridge . In her dissertation she dealt with radical utopias in the 19th century.

With her first autobiographical work Educated about her childhood and subsequent educational efforts, she reached first place on The New York Times Best Seller list .

Tara Westover lives in Cambridge, UK .

Works

  • The family, morality and social science in Anglo-American cooperative thought, 1813-1890. Dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2014.
  • Educated. A memoir. Random House, New York 2018, ISBN 978-0-399-59050-4 .

Web links

Commons : Tara Westover  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Interview with Tara Westover: "My childhood was difficult and wonderful" , Der Tagesspiegel , Sept. 3, 2018
  2. ↑ Tara Westover reinvents herself . In: book report . March 7, 2018 ( buchreport.de - paid items).
  3. ↑ Interview: Tara Westover: 'In families like mine there is no crime worse than telling the truth.' , The Guardian , February 17, 2018
  4. ^ Bill Gates: Educated is even better than you've heard. In: Gates Notes. December 3, 2018, accessed December 14, 2018 .
  5. ^ Tara Westover on Her Remarkable Life, From Survivalist Childhood to Cambridge Ph.D. In: The New York Times . April 6, 2018 (English, nytimes.com [accessed September 21, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Interview: Lisa O'Kelly: Tara Westover: 'In families like mine there is no crime worse than telling the truth.' In: theguardian.com. The Guardian , February 17, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Catalog entry .
personal data
SURNAME Westover, Tara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Clifton , Idaho