Tara Botel DohertyTara Botel Doherty was born in Los Angeles. She was raised by her grandmother and mother blocks away from famed Hollywood Boulevard. It was a Bohemian upbringing filled with art, dance, and guitar lessons and movie sets where her father worked as a lghting technician. This environment helped generate her love of the arts, especially books and writing. She wrote her first book in the first grade. Educated in both public and parochial schools where the fundamentals of perseverance and patience were drilled into her, Tara understood the work ethic. She spends her days and nights teaching English in the San Fernando Valley. Now residing up in the Santa Clarita Valley, aka the 'Rita with her husband and daughter, she writes regularly about her adventures in Hollywood. Read More Read Less