Fawn Mckay

Fawn McKay Brodie was born in Ogden Utah on September 15 1915. Fawn McKay, born into the Mormon Church's First Family, employed her creative talents and skills in researching to produce an intriguing psycho-historical biography of Joseph Smith. Published in 1945 with the title: No Man Knows My History, she used both. The title was inspired by a funeral speech delivered in 1844 by Church of Latter-Day Saints founder Joseph Smith. In his sermon, he declared: "You do not know what I'm about and you've not seen my soul." Nobody knows my past. It's impossible to tell. Fawn, a 29-year-old woman said: "Since that moment of honesty at least three scores writers have picked up the challenge." Some have rebuked him, while others have deified. A few have even made an assessment. The documents are missing, it's the fact that they're contradictory. It is a daunting task to put together the documents, of separating firsthand accounts from third-party plagiarism and integrating Mormon and non-Mormon narratives into a mosaic that makes credible the history. It is both exciting and educational. This is the kind of task to which Fawn Brodie committed herself professionally. Thaddeus Steves became a worldwide fame due to her research and her work. The DevilDrives. Thomas Jefferson. An intimate Historiography (1974) and posthumously Richard Nixon.