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Tara Westover, author

Community Read – Educated: A Memoir

Tue, Feb 23, 2021 @ 7:00 pm CST - 8:30 pm CST

| Free

The Glenbard Parent Series has selected the riveting “Educated: A Memoir” by best-selling author Tara Westover as its second semester Community-Wide Read. Please join us at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23 when GPS will host the book’s author in a special event live-streamed by the College of DuPage.

Participants’ cameras and microphones will be disabled during the speaker’s presentation. Questions may be submitted ahead of time to Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator, at gilda_ross@glenbard.org.

Use this link to join the webinar from your computer, phone, or tablet  – http://cod.edu/GPS

Tara Westover was born in Idaho the youngest of seven children, to survivalist, isolated parents opposed to public education.

She never attended school and never saw a doctor. Teaching herself algebra, Westover was able to score well enough on the ACT to enter Brigham Young University. Her passion to be educated took her to Harvard University and ultimately to Cambridge, where she earned her PhD.

This inspirational, epic is a story of remarkable resilience and a testament to courage as Westover struggles to reconcile her desire for education and autonomy with her desire to be loyal to her violent and dysfunctional family.

Raw and powerful, Educated was an instant commercial and critical success, remaining on the bestseller list for more than 2 years. The book was named the Best Books of the year by The Washington Post, Time and NPR and received over a dozen national literary awards including being named an ‘Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults’ by the American Library Association.

Tara Westover will be interviewed in conversation with Heidi Stevens the daily “Balancing Act” columnist for the Chicago Tribune.

 

Tara Westover is an American author. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. An older brother taught her to read, and after that her education was erratic and haphazard, with most of her days spent working in her father’s junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother. She was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. After that first encounter with education she pursued learning for a decade, graduating magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2008 and subsequently winning a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She received an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009 and in 2014 was awarded a PhD in history. Currently, she is a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center, working on projects related to media and political polarization

Tara Westover’s web site HERE

 

 

Heidi Stevens writes the daily “Balancing Act” column for the Chicago Tribune, where she has worked since 1998. Before covering lifestyles, she was an editor in the Tribune’s entertainment department.

Details

Date:
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Time:
7:00 pm CST - 8:30 pm CST
Cost:
Free
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Organizer

Gilda Ross

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Speaker
Tara Westover, author

Venue

Glenbard West
670 Crescent Blvd
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 United States
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