Tara Westover Biography

Tara Westover is an American memoirist, essayist and historian. She is known for her book Educated (2018), which debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for a number of national honors, including the LA Times Book Prize, PEN America’s Jean Stein Book Award, and two National Book Critics Circle Awards. Educated was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2018 by the New York Times.

Tara Westover Age

Tara was born on 30th September 1986 in Clifton, Idaho.

Tara Westover Height

Tara is of average stature and shape she stands at a height of 6 feet tall.

Tara Westover Family

Westover was the youngest of seven children born to Mormon survivalist parents in Clifton, Idaho. She has a sister and five elder brothers. Doctors, hospitals, public schools, and the federal government were all suspects to her parents. Westover was delivered by a midwife at home and never visited a doctor or nurse.

Her birth certificate was not issued until she was nine years old. Their father was adamant about none of the family members receiving proper medical treatment. The children were only treated by their mother, who had studied herbalism and other alternative healing methods, even when they were gravely injured.
Tara’s older brother, Luke Westover, is Tara’s fourth brother. Luke is portrayed as the sibling who caught fire in the scrapyard and had to be nursed back to health by Tara’s mother. Tara’s only sister, Audrey Westover. She assists their mother in the herbal medicine company.

Tara Westover Husband

Tara has kept matters concerning her love life private from the public eye. It is unknown if she is married or dating someone.

Tara Westover Education

Despite her lack of a high school graduation, she was accepted to Brigham Young University and given a scholarship. Westover became more successful and graduated with honors in 2008 after a challenging first year in which she struggled to acclimatise to academia and the wider society there.
She went on to receive a Master’s degree from Trinity College, University of Cambridge, as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and spent 2010 as a visiting fellow at Harvard University. In 2014, she returned to Trinity College, Cambridge, to complete her doctorate in intellectual history. “The Family, Morality, and Social Science in Anglo-American Cooperative Thought, 1813–1890,” is the title of her dissertation.

Tara Westover Educated Memoir

Westover’s memoir, Educated: A Memoir, was released in 2018 by Penguin Random House and relates the narrative of her battle to balance her desire for education and autonomy with her family’s rigid beliefs and isolated life. The coming-of-age story was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, and it received good reviews from publications such as the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, USA Today, Vogue, and The Economist.
Educated has spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover and has been translated into 45 languages as of February 2020. The book was named the No. 1 Library Reads choice by American librarians, and as of August 2019, it had been checked out more than any other book across all 88 branches of the New York Public Library. As of today,

Tara Westover Net worth

Tara has an estimated net worth ranging between $ 1 million – $ 5 million.