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Tara Westover
December 4, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
$90 – $345Literary Arts presents the 34th season of Portland Arts & Lectures, featuring some of the most engaging writers at work today. They are novelists, essayists, and journalists whose award-winning works covers the most compelling issues of our time.
Subscriptions to the five-part series are available at literary-arts.org, starting at $90.
Tara Westover, whose first book, Educated: A Memoir, is a #1 New York Times bestseller, visits Portland on December 4.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Tara Westover was born in Idaho in 1986. She received her BA from Brigham Young University in 2008 and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014. Her first book is Educated: A Memoir, a #1 New York Times bestseller, which USA Today praised as “living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable… a heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir about striding beyond the limitations of birth and environment into a better life.”
[from the Portland’5 website]