Tara Westover Speaking Fee: $50,000 to $75,000
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Tara Westover Speaker Profile: At A Glance
Tara Westover is an American author. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. An older brother taught her to read, and after that her education was erratic and haphazard, with most of her days spent working in her father’s junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother. She was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom.
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