Beschreibung
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate, had never set foot in a classroom, and had no medical records. At sixteen, Tara decided to educate herself - and her struggle for knowledge would take her all the way to Harvard and Cambridge. An extraordinary memoir that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers. A heartbreaking and powerful memoir.
Produktsicherheitsverordnung
Hersteller:
Random House US
areichelt@randomhouse.com
1745 Broadway
US NEW YORK, NY 10019
Importeur:
Petersen Buchimport GmbH
Vertrieb
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DE 22083 Hamburg
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Autorenportrait
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.
