BABEL-2025/2026 Season, 3-Tara Westover
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C-SPAN
Tara Westover details her life growing up with survivalist parents in the Idaho Mountains and her introduction to formal education at age 17, from April 2024.
Deseret News
The article gives her family’s perspective on the book, from January 2023.
Gates Notes
Bill Gates discusses the memoir Educated with the author Tara Westover, December 2018, Updated May 2025.
Harvard Kennedy School: Shorenstein Center
Tara Westover discusses with Nancy Gibbs, director of the Shorenstein Center, the transformative power of education, particularly its role in bridging ideological divides and fostering understanding, from November 2019. This link includes a video.
Literary Hub
Listen to Tara Westover talk about what it meant to leave her faith, from the Thresholds Podcast Hosted by Jordan Kisner, from April 2020.
National Endowment for the Humanities
The article describes the life of Tara Westover, the 2021 National Humanities Medal winner.
Oprah Winfrey Interview
In a special conversation, Oprah sits down with author Tara Westover to discuss her New York Times best-selling memoir, Educated, aboard the Holland America cruise ship, Nieuw Statendam, from May 2019.
PBS News Hour
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 survivalist family in rural Idaho, from May 2018.
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Homeschooling
Education
Family Abuse
Mormon
Survivalist