Tara Westover
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- Works
- 2
Top works
- משכילה
- Uma Educação
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems
· 2019 · cited 9,164x
- Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition: The Shared Views of Four Research Groups
· 2012 · cited 7,918x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,579x
- Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
· 2005 · cited 5,362x
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,772x
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Quotes
- “The irony was that if Dad was bipolar—or had any of a dozen disorders that might explain his behavior—the same paranoia that was a symptom of the illness would prevent its ever being diagnosed and treated. No one would ever know.”
- “The seed of curiosity had been planted; it needed nothing more than time and boredom to grow.”
- “The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”
- “I don’t know how long I sat there reading about it, but at some point I’d read enough. I leaned back and stared at the ceiling. I suppose I was in shock, but whether it was the shock of learning about something horrific, or the shock of learning about my own ignorance, I’m not sure.”
- “Suspended between fear of the past and fear of the future, I recorded the dream in my journal. Then, without any explanation, as if the connection between the two were obvious, I wrote, I don’t understand why I wasn’t allowed to get a decent education as a child.”
- “By the end of it, I had finally begun to grasp something that should have been immediately apparent: that someone had opposed the great march toward equality; someone had been the person from whom freedom had to be wrested.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1986-09-27 ) September 27, 1986 (age 39) , Clifton, Idaho , U.S.
- Occupation
- Historian writer
- Language
- English
- Alma mater
- Brigham Young University ( BA ) University of Cambridge ( MA , PhD )
- Notable works
- Educated
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tara
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Clifton
- Occupation
- historian
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Educated
- Field of work
- literature
- Genre
- memoir
- Official website
- tarawestover.com
- Image
- Tara Westover receives the National Humanities Medal on March 21, 2023, in the East Room of the White House - P20230321ES-0780 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1986-09-27
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Encyclopedic overview
Tara Westover (born September 27, 1986) is an American memoirist, essayist and historian. Her memoir Educated (2018) debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, PEN America's Jean Stein Book Award, and two awards from the National Book Critics Circle Award. The New York Times ranked Educated as one of the 10 Best Books of 2018. Westover was chosen by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of 2019.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tara Westover” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.