Tara Westover

Tara Westover was born in September 1986 in Clifton, Idaho. She was the youngest of seven kids to LaRee and Val Westover. Her parents were survivalists and were suspicious of hospitals, doctors, public schools, as well as the federal government. Because of this, Westover was born at home, never visited a nurse or doctor, delivered by a midwife, and did not get a birth certificate until she was nine years old.