Tara Westover Biography

The youngest of seven children, Tara Westover was born in 1986 and grew up on a mountain in rural Idaho. Despite never having attended school due to her parents’ beliefs, at the age of 16 she was accepted to Brigham Young University (BYU), where she intended to study music but found herself drawn to history. In 2008, Westover was awarded a Gates scholarship to study at Cambridge University, and in 2014, she earned a PhD in history from Trinity College, Cambridge. She is currently a senior research fellow at the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. This is her first book.

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