I can’t drive by an accident without both dreading and being curious about what happened. I had that kind of listening experience with Tara Westover’s memoir, “Educated,” read by Julia Whelan (book ...

We think of excellent writers as being avid readers from a young age. We believe they have inhaled words that become the fabric of their being. But books were not held in high regard in the Westover ...

I’ve always valued education, but I realized I never really appreciated how transformative it can be. “Educated,” the autobiography of historian and writer Tara Westover, tells the story of her ...

Tara Westover is a BYU graduate and author of the New York Times bestseller 'Educated,' a memoir about Westover's path from rural Idaho to BYU to Cambridge University. (Paul Stuart) BYU alumna Tara ...

In her best-selling memoir, Educated, Tara Westover describes her emergence from an Idaho survivalist family to establishing her own identity and, eventually, earning a Ph.D. while attending Harvard ...

It is also the story of a young woman who showed the most remarkable resilience in the face of extreme poverty, rigid religious beliefs, violence and family betrayals. It is a beautifully written ...