Just Buffalo Literary Center presents
BABEL featuring Tara Westover
Thursday, March 26, 2026
7:30 pm
Doors open & VIP Patron Reception at 6:30 p.m.

Join Just Buffalo Literary Center’s BABEL Author Series for an evening with Tara Westover

Tara Westover is an American historian and memoirist. Her first book, Educated, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and remained on the list for more than two years. A memoir of her upbringing in rural Idaho, never setting foot in a classroom until the age of seventeen, the book was a finalist for numerous awards and has been translated into 49 languages. 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. For her staggering impact, 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.

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