Writers Center Stage with authors Tara Westover & Terry Tempest Williams

Tara Westover’s 2018 memoir, Educated, debuted at #1 on the New York Times best-seller list and remained there for more than a year. The book explores Westover’s struggle to reconcile her desire for education and autonomy with her desire to be loyal to her family. To date, Educated has sold more than 3 million copies and has been translated into 36 languages. For the book’s staggering impact, TIME Magazine named Westover one of the 100 most influential people of 2018.

Writer/naturalist/activist Terry Tempest Williams is known for her fierce advocacy and impassioned, lyrical prose. She is the author of the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (1991); Finding Beauty in a Broken World (2008); and the best-seller, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks (2016). In 2019, Williams was given The Robert Kirsch Award, a lifetime achievement prize given to a writer with a substantial connection to the American West. Her latest book is Erosion: Essays of Undoing (2019).

Tara Westover & Terry Tempest Williams will speak on May 6 as part of the Cuyahoga County Public Library's Writers Center Stage series. As the academic partner for the series, CWRU students are able to attend this virtual event for free. 

Please register by May 4. Your email will be shared with Cuyahoga County Public Library - they will send the unique event link to all participants shortly before event begins at 7 p.m. on May 6.

For more information about the Writers Center Stage series, please visit their website.  

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