Fawn Mckay

Fawn McKay Brodie was born in Ogden Utah on September 15 1915. Fawn, a member of the Mormon Church's longest-running family, merged her writing talents and exceptional research abilities to create a stunning biography of Joseph Smith. No Man knew My History appeared in 1945. This title is derived from a funeral speech delivered by the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints in 1844, when he shocked those he addressed with the words: You don't know me you never knew my heart. My story is not known to anyone. It's impossible to tell. The 29-year-old wrote Fawn: Since that moment of candor more than three writers have taken up the battle. There are some who have tried to make a clinical diagnosis. The documents aren't insufficient and contradictory. It is a difficult job to find these records, separating first-hand accounts from third-hand copies and fitting Mormon narratives with non-Mormon ones to form a cohesive mosaic. The task is exciting and informative. It's a task which Fawn Brodie committed herself professionally. Thaddeus Stevens. Stevens is immortalized in her writing and by the results of her studies. "The Devil's Road" (1959) The Scourge of South. Thomas Jefferson. Richard Nixon, An Intimate history (1974) The posthumous.