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Tara Westover (official website)
Created by Tara. Visit this site to read her published essays.
Savages: Escaping a world of religious survivalism
Book Review published in Times Literary Supplement (2018)
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Review by Angela Hallstrom published in BYU Studies Quarterly, Vol 57, No. 4 (2018)
Educated by Tara Westover
Review by Michelle Inderbitzen published in Teaching Sociology, Vol 48. (No 2.) April 2020
Is School The Only Way to Get an Education?
Conversation between Tara Westover, Tanvi Misra, and Anna Marks. Published in The Atlantic, 2018

Tara Westover (b. 1986) wrote the memoir, Educated published in 2018. It details the story of her upbringing in rural Idaho.

'Educated' by Tara Westover
Short critique from Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker
The Education of an Ambivalent Feminist
Critique by Mickie McElya at Boston Review
Educated by Tara Westover review - escape from a Mormon fundamentalist family
Critical review published by Michelle Dean, The Guardian

'Educated': Discussion Questions
Published in the New York Times, 2018
Review: Alone at the Summit..
Published in the Wall Street Journal (online) 2018
The Author Who Only Found Out About the Holocaust in College
By Neta Alexander published in 2018