Educated : a memoir / Tara Westover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443452489
- ISBN: 9780399590504
- Physical Description: xv, 334 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: First Canadian edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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Radium Hot Springs Public Library | 270.092 WES (Text) | 35130000073019 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-16 |
Alexis Creek Branch | 270.092 WES (Text) | 33923006139186 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Anahim Lake Branch | 270.092 WES (Text) | 33923006041283 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Beaver Valley Public Library | 920 WES (Text) | 35144000201595 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Big Lake Branch | 270.092 WES (Text) | 33923006001469 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Bowen Island Public Library | BIO WES (Text) | 30947000552527 | Biographies | Volume hold | Available | - |
Burns Lake Public Library | 289.3092 WES (Text) | 35198000672726 | Adult Non-Fiction | Not holdable | Lost | 2020-11-10 |
Castlegar Public Library | 270.092 WES (Text) | 35146002344711 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Chetwynd Public Library | 270.092 WES (Text) | 35222001033371 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Creston Public Library | BIO WES (Text)
Acquisition Type: Donated |
35140001188039 | Biographies | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-18 |
Tara Westover is an American historian and memoirist. Her first book, Educated, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and remained on the list, in hardcover, for more than two years. The book, a memoir of her upbringing in rural Idaho, was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. To date it has been translated into more than forty-five languages. The New York Times named Educated one of the 10 Best Books of 2018, and the American Booksellers Association voted Educated the Nonfiction Book of the Year. For her staggering impact, Time named Westover one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2019. Westover holds a PhD in intellectual history from Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2019 she was the Rosenthal Writer in Residence at Harvard University. In 2023, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden.