Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Spring has reared its head in Cambridge. In the park opposite Tara Westover's home the foliage is growing into that distinctive English ...

In All Ages, Globe Books asks authors to dig deep for memorable books that span their lifetime, from childhood to what’s on their reading list right now. Tara Westover was born and raised in rural ...

Tara Westover’s memoir “Educated,” which describes growing up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho and then going on to Harvard and Cambridge, is our May pick for the new PBS NewsHour-New York Times ...

Tara Westover spent her childhood up a mountain in Idaho preparing for the End of Days. Her parents were Mormon survivalists who stockpiled weapons and ammunition, food and fuel. The agencies of ...

When does a child begin to understand that her family is different? For Tara Westover, the realization came in pieces — raw as an injury at first, then quickly covered over with emotional scar tissue.

Caroline Sanderson worked as a Waterstones bookseller, and as a book publicist before becoming a freelance writer in 1997. The Bookseller’s In her exceptional memoir, Educated, Tara Westover writes of ...

Tara Westover is one of the most influential people of 2019. Her memoir 'Educated' offers a unique perspective on polarization in America, Bill Gates says. If you haven’t read Educated yet, chances ...

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 ...

One book that’s on most “best of the year” lists — including that of Time magazine, Bill Gates and the Obamas — is Tara Westover‘s “Educated.” In the memoir, Westover recounts growing up in and ...

Tara Westover grew up on a remote Idaho mountain, the youngest of seven children in a fundamentalist Mormon family. “Four of my parents’ seven children don’t have birth certificates. We have no ...