| 词条 | Tara Westover |
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| name = Tara Westover | image = Tara Westover London 2014.jpg | caption = Westover in 2014 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1986|9}}[1] | birth_place = Clifton, Idaho, U.S. | occupation = {{flatlist|
| alma_mater = {{ubl|Brigham Young University (BA)|Trinity College, Cambridge (MPhil, PhD)}} | genre = Memoir | subject = | website = {{URL|https://tarawestover.com}} }}Tara Westover (born September 1986) is an American memoirist, essayist and historian best known for her internationally bestselling memoir, Educated. The book was shortlisted for two awards from the National Book Critics Circle Award (the John Leonard Award, the Autobiography Award), long listed for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence, and won the Goodreads Choice Award for Memoir & Autobiography. It was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, and also for PEN America's grand prize, the Jean Stein Book Award. The New York Times named Educated one of the 10 Best Books of 2018.[2] Early life & educationWestover was born in Clifton, Idaho (population 259)[3] to Val and LaRee Westover, the youngest of 7 children. Her parents followed a survivalist lifestyle and were suspicious of doctors, hospitals, public schools, and the federal government. As a result, Westover was born at home, delivered by a midwife, and she never visited a doctor or nurse, and did not receive a birth certificate until she was nine years old. Her father’s ideology forbade all pharmaceutical interventions, which meant that Westover and her siblings were not taken to the doctor even for serious injuries sustained in automobile accidents and while working in their father’s wrecking yard. Instead, the children were treated at home by their mother who had studied herbalism and other methods of alternative healing. Like her siblings, Westover was homeschooled, and according to her memoir her education was haphazard. An older brother had taught her to read, and she studied the scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to which her family belonged. But she never attended a lecture, wrote an essay, or took an exam, and there were few textbooks in the house which she could use to teach herself. Despite this, she credits her parents with teaching her how to think and how to learn. As a teenager, Westover purchased textbooks and studied independently to pass the ACT Exam. She was able to gain admission to Brigham Young University. After a difficult first year, in which Westover struggled to adjust to academia and mainstream society, she began to do well, and went on to graduate with honors in 2008. She subsequently earned a Master's degree from the University of Cambridge at Trinity College[4] on a Gates Scholarship, and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University in 2010. She returned to Trinity College, Cambridge, where she earned a Doctorate in intellectual history in 2014. In 2009, while a graduate student at Cambridge, Westover told her parents that for many years (since age 15) she had been physically and psychologically abused by an older brother. Her parents responded by denying the violence and suggesting that Westover was under the influence of Satan, and a schism occurred. The estrangement, and her unusual path to and through a university education, is the subject of her 2018 memoir, Educated. CareerEducated: A MemoirIn 2018, Penguin Random House published Westover's Educated: A Memoir, which tells the story of her struggle to reconcile her desire for education and autonomy with her family’s rigid ideology.[5][6][7][8][9] The book was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, and was positively reviewed by the New York Times,[10][11] The Atlantic Monthly,[12] USA Today,[13] Vogue,[14][15] and The Economist,[16] among others. In August 2018, former President Obama included Educated on his annual summer reading list,[17][18] calling it “remarkable”. In December, Amazon named Educated the "Best Book of 2018",[19] and Bill Gates included it on a list of his favorite books of the year, saying, "It's even better than you've heard."[20] In December 2018, Educated was voted the No.1 book of 2018 in the Memoir and Autobiography category in the Goodreads Choice Awards.[21] As of February 2018, Educated had spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list[22] and was in the process of being translated into 30 languages.[23] It was popular in Utah libraries, and was the book with the longest waitlist at the Salt Lake City Public Library in February 2019.[24] Through their attorney, the family has disputed some elements of Westover's book, including her speculation that her father had bipolar disorder and that her mother suffered a brain injury that resulted in reduced motor skills. Blake Atkin, a lawyer representing Tara Westover’s parents, claims that Educated creates a distorted picture of Val and LaRee Westover.[25] Personal lifeWestover currently lives in New York City. References1. ^{{cite news |last1=Whitworth |first1=Damian |title=Review: Educated by Tara Westover — from the Mormon boondocks to a Cambridge PhD |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/review-educated-by-tara-westover-from-the-mormon-boondocks-to-a-cambridge-phd-h6qtl2d6c |publisher=The Times |date=February 17, 2018}} 2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/books/review/best-books.html|title=The 10 Best Books of 2018|date=2018-12-05|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-08|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/community_facts.xhtml?src=bkmk|title=American FactFinder - Community Facts|last=Bureau|first=U. S. Census|website=factfinder.census.gov|language=en|access-date=2019-04-03}} 4. ^{{cite magazine |author= |date=Summer 2018 |title=Tara Westover (2008) on her first book, Educated: A Memoir, the 'life of the mind', and the transformative power of education |url=https://issuu.com/trinityalumni/docs/trinity_the_fountain_spring_2018_we/18 |magazine=The Fountain |issue=25 |publisher=Trinity College, Cambridge |access-date=19 March 2018 |via=issuu}} 5. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550168/educated-by-tara-westover/9780399590504/|title=Educated by Tara Westover {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/books/tara-westover-educated-review-1.16922262|title=‘Educated’ review: Tara Westover’s memoir of a childhood with religious extremists, and finding her own voice (book review)|last1=Cryer|first1=Dan|date=23 February 2018|accessdate=24 February 2018|publisher=Newsday}} 7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/book-review-educated-by-tara-westover-fztrfjknf|title=Book review: Educated by Tara Westover|last=Davies|first=Review by Helen|date=2018-02-04|access-date=2018-03-19|issn=0140-0460}} 8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180130-ten-books-to-read-in-february|title=Ten books to read in February|last=Ciabattari|first=Jane|access-date=2018-03-19}} 9. ^{{Cite news|url=http://ew.com/books/most-anticipated-books-2018|title=The 50 most anticipated books of 2018|date=2017-12-26|work=EW.com|access-date=2018-03-19}} 10. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/books/review/tara-westover-educated.html|title=She Didn’t Own a Birth Certificate or Go to School. Yet She Went On to Earn a Ph.D.|last=MacGillis|first=Alec|date=2018-03-01|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-19|issn=0362-4331}} 11. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/books/review/westover-educated-best-seller.html|title=Spinning a Brutal Off-the-Grid Childhood into a Gripping Memoir|last=Jordan|first=Tina|date=2018-03-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-19|issn=0362-4331}} 12. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/02/20/587244230/memoirist-retraces-her-journey-from-survivalist-childhood-to-cambridge-ph-d|title=Educated Is a Brutal, One-of-a-Kind Memoir (book review)|last1=Hurlburt|first1=Ann|date=March 2018|accessdate=24 February 2018|publisher=The Atlantic}} 13. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2018/02/19/educated-inspiring-story-isolated-young-woman-determined-learn/334900002/|title=In 'Educated,' the inspiring story of an isolated young woman determined to learn|work=USA TODAY|access-date=2018-11-29}} 14. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/tara-westover-memoir-educated-vogue-march-2018-issue|title=Tara Westover on Turning Her Off-the-Grid Life Into a Remarkable Memoir|work=Vogue|access-date=2018-11-29}} 15. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/tara-westover-educated-excerpt|title=Tara Westover’s Educated Is Already Being Hailed as the "Next Hillbilly Elegy"|work=Vogue|access-date=2018-11-29}} 16. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21737019-tara-westover-made-it-compound-idaho-harvard-riveting-memoir-brutal|title=A riveting memoir of a brutal upbringing (book review)|date=15 February 2018|accessdate=24 February 2018|publisher=The Economist}} 17. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/08/20/obama-summer-reading-list/1045965002/|title='Factfulness' and 'Educated' among the titles on Obama's summer reading list|last1=Cummings|first1=William|date=August 20, 2018|work=USA Today|accessdate=August 28, 2018}} 18. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/barack-obamas-summer-reading-list-is-everything-we-need-right-now/2018/08/19/18ed91c4-a3d9-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html|title=Perspective {{!}} Barack Obama’s summer reading list is everything we need right now|last=https://www.facebook.com/roncharles|website=Washington Post|access-date=2018-11-29}} 19. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=17276804011|title=The Best Books of 2018|last=|first=|date=|website=www.amazon.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-01-08}} 20. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Educated|title=Educated is even better than you’ve heard|last=Gates|first=Bill|website=gatesnotes.com|access-date=2019-01-08}} 21. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-memoir-autobiography-books-2018|title=Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Memoir & Autobiography!|website=Goodreads|access-date=2018-12-04}} 22. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/|title=Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers - The New York Times|last=|first=|date=|work=|access-date=2018-11-29}} 23. ^{{Cite web|url=https://tarawestover.com/book/|title=Book — Tara Westover|website=Tara Westover|access-date=2018-11-29}} 24. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900052851/still-on-the-library-waitlist-for-tara-westover-educated-byu-heres-why.html|title=Still on the library waitlist for Tara Westover's 'Educated'? Here's why|last=Baker|first=Camille|date=2019-01-29|website=DeseretNews.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-04}} 25. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/holocaust-remembrance-day/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-tara-westover-found-out-about-the-holocaust-and-became-educated-1.6221342|title=The Author Who Only Found Out About the Holocaust in College: How Tara Westover Became 'Educated'|last=Alexander|first=Neta|date=2018-07-03|work=Haaretz|access-date=2019-02-21|language=en|url-access=subscription}} External links
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