How to square all this? If you're Westover, you don't, really—you keep on keeping on. EW caught up with the author to celebrate the two-year milestone, and in conversation, she came off alternately ...

The Ducks’ season ended last year thanks ended last with a 87-83 loss to the Arizona Wildcats in the NCAA Tourna- ment. For a team that was... The end of the track and field season saw 17 current or ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - A New York Times best-selling author was in North Texas on Tuesday to learn about a local nonprofit that transforms preschools - and to share her own unconventional path to ...

BLUE BELL – Tara Westover – historian, best-selling author, public speaker – had a message for freshmen at Montgomery County Community College attending the Presidential Symposium on Diversity. “You ...

When does a child begin to understand that her family is different? For Tara Westover, the realization came in pieces — raw as an injury at first, then quickly covered over with emotional scar tissue.

One book that’s on most “best of the year” lists — including that of Time magazine, Bill Gates and the Obamas — is Tara Westover‘s “Educated.” In the memoir, Westover recounts growing up in and ...

Author and guest speaker Tara Westover, center, with UCSB Arts & Lectures ambassador Meg Burnham and Arts & Lectures Council member Dan Burnham at The Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara during A&L’s ...

EDUCATED: A Memoir, by Tara Westover. Random House, 334 pp., $28. How many ways can a family be screwed up? Let us, via memoirs, count the ways. Bohemians surely know how to do it. In Jeanette Walls’ ...

The May pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club “Now Read This” is Tara Westover’s memoir “Educated,” about growing up in a Mormon survivalist family in rural Idaho. “Now Read This” is a ...

Education, like electricity, is most noticeable in its absence, according to Tara Westover. As the daughter of survivalist Mormon parents who shunned public education, she first stepped foot into a ...