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Tara Westover was born on 27 September, 1986 in Clifton, Idaho, is an American historian and author. Discover Tara Westover's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 37 years old?

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Occupation Historian and author
Age 37 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 27 September, 1986
Birthday 27 September
Birthplace Clifton, Idaho
Nationality United States

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1813

Her thesis is entitled "The Family, Morality and Social Science in Anglo-American Cooperative Thought, 1813–1890".

1986

Tara Westover (born September 27, 1986) is an American memoirist, essayist and historian.

2008

After a difficult first year, in which Westover struggled to adjust to academia and the wider society there, she became more successful and graduated with honors in 2008.

2009

In 2009, while a graduate student at Cambridge, Westover told her parents that for many years (since age 15), she had been physically and psychologically abused by an older brother.

Her parents denied her account and suggested that Westover was under the influence of Satan.

The family split over these events.

2010

She then earned a Master's degree from the University of Cambridge at Trinity College as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University in 2010.

2014

She returned to Trinity College, Cambridge, where she earned a doctorate in intellectual history in 2014.

2018

Her memoir Educated (2018) debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the LA Times Book Prize, PEN America's Jean Stein Book Award, and two awards from the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The New York Times ranked Educated as one of the 10 Best Books of 2018.

Westover wrote about the estrangement, and her unusual path to and through university education in her 2018 memoir, Educated.

In 2018, Penguin Random House published Westover's Educated: A Memoir, which tells the story of her struggle to reconcile her desire for education and autonomy with her family's rigid ideology and isolated life.

The coming-of-age story was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, and was positively reviewed by the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, USA Today, Vogue, and The Economist, among others.

, Educated has spent two years in hardcover on the New York Times bestseller list and is being translated into 45 languages.

2019

Westover was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2019.

Westover was the youngest of seven children born in Clifton, Idaho (population 259) to Mormon survivalist parents.

She has five older brothers and an older sister.

Her parents were suspicious of doctors, hospitals, public schools, and the federal government.

Westover was born at home, delivered by a midwife, and was never taken to a doctor or nurse.

She was not registered for a birth certificate until she was nine years old.

Their father resisted getting formal medical treatment for any of the family.

Even when seriously injured, the children were treated only by their mother, who had studied herbalism and other methods of alternative healing.

All the siblings were loosely homeschooled by their mother.

Westover has said an older brother taught her to read, and she studied the scriptures of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

But she never attended a lecture, wrote an essay, or took an exam.

There were few textbooks in their house.

As a teenager, Westover began to want to enter the larger world and attend college.

She purchased textbooks and studied independently in order to score well on the ACT Exam.

She gained admission to Brigham Young University and was awarded a scholarship, although she had no high school diploma.

Westover was Fall 2019 A.M. Rosenthal Writer in Residence at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard Kennedy School.

The book was voted the No. 1 Library Reads pick by American librarians, and in August 2019, it had been checked out more frequently than any other book through all New York Public Library's 88 branches.

2020

She was selected as a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University for Spring 2020.

Westover has written for The New York Times and BBC News.

As of December 2020, Educated has sold more than 8 million copies.

Through their attorney, the family has disputed some elements of Westover's book, including her suggestion that her father may have bipolar disorder and that her mother may have suffered a brain injury that resulted in reduced motor skills.

Westover's book earned her several awards, and other recognition.

Westover lives in London.