Tara Westover
Tara Westover is an American essayist and historian who grew up living a survivalist lifestyle with no formal education, first setting foot in a classroom at the age of 17. Her memoir, published in 2018 and titled Educated, is a coming-of-age story that deals with her struggle to educate herself and her self-invention. Educated debuted #1 on The New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for several national awards, it also ranked # 3 on Amazon’s list of best-selling books of 2019. The New York Times named Educated one of the 10 Best Books of 2018, and in a piece written by Bill Gates, Westover was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2019.