About Tara Westover![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/rV6VjFpT1A4FHKTf7oZGo7YNIRc7Se0yEwral4WTzZQV88-lx90MPSc17_ONaMjoC6aALEgLNvXq2UdXVLthtHxSJRq41TUQmWSS1Qt5fglh-m5tQ1mb0TXMq1cIRUN6xHvTe4Kltp8izOS_Og92Sbs)
Tara Westover was born in Idaho in 1986. She received her BA from Brigham Young University in 2008 and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014. Educated is her first book.
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