Written Arts Program Presents

A Reading with Tara Westover

On Monday, November 9th, at 5:30pm in the Robert Kelly Reading Room, writer Tara Westover will read from her work. This reading is free and open to the public.

Tara Westover is an American historian and memoirist. Her first book, Educated, was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the L.A. Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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. In 2019, Time Magazine named Westover one of the 100 Most Influential People. 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.

You can read more about Tara Westover's work here. 

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Campus Center North, Robert Kelly Multipurpose Room

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