Author Bios

  • Tara Westover

    Tara Westover was born on September 27, 1986, in Clifton, Idaho, the youngest of seven children in a survivalist family that operated largely outside mainstream American society. Her father, a fervent believer in government conspiracies and the imminent end of the world, kept his children away from public schools and hospitals. Westover grew up working…

  • Kazuo Ishiguro

    Kazuo Ishiguro is a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist born in Nagasaki, Japan. Author of The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and Klara and the Sun, his work explores memory, loss, and self-deception through some of the most precisely controlled prose in contemporary fiction.