GROWING UP SURVIVALIST, EARNING A PhD FROM CAMBRIDGE Tara Westover, "Educated" SAT 10pm ET & SUN 9pm ET & PT Tara Westover details her life growing up with survivalist parents in the Idaho mountains and her introduction to formal education at age 17, culminating in a PhD from University of Cambridge. She is interviewed by author and journalist Susannah Cahalan. Here's a portion of their discussion.... | BookTV

In education, you can choose to remake yourself — or be made by others, Tara Westover, the author of "Educated," says in this essay. "Educated" is this month's pick for Now Read This, a book club from the PBS NewsHour and The New York Times Books. | PBS NewsHour

Oh my word, friends. Tara Westover. Author of the incredible book “Educated” about her journey from survivalist kid to academic. It was so great to talk with my fellow book twin 👯 (It’s a thing? I am making it a thing. We were both authors with the same editor Hilary Redmon, superbrain of publishing and deep skeptic of semicolons.) Tara Westover asks such a hard and important question: what do we do when our families are sources of pain, confusion, or harm? How do we (or can we) outgrow our com