Tara Westover is an American historian and memoir author. Her first book, Educated, debuted at number 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 several national awards, including the L.A. Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. To date, it has been translated into 49 languages. The New York Times named Educated one of the top 10 books of 2018, and the American Booksellers Association voted Educated as the non-fiction book of the year. In 2019, Time magazine named Westover one of the 100 most influential people. Westover holds a PhD in intellectual history from Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2019 was the Rosenthal writer in residence at Harvard University. In 2023, President Biden awarded her the National Humanities Medal.
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