Fawn Mckay

Fawn Brodie McKay was born September 15, 1915, was born in Ogden Utah. Fawn McKay, brought up in the Mormon First Family of the Church made use of her talent for writing and skills in researching to produce the intriguing biographical psycho-historical study of Joseph Smith. Published in 1945 under the title of No Man knows My History, she used both. That title was taken from the funeral sermon preached by the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints in 1844. In the sermon, he wowed those he addressed with the words"You're not my friend, you never knew my heart. Nobody knows my story. There is no one who knows my past. Writes the 29-year-old Fawn after that moment of candor more than three writers have been able to take on the challenge. There have been attempts to make him god and others have claimed that he is untrue. Some have even made a clinical diagnosis. It's because there are no documents. They are just contradictory. It's difficult to organize these records and to distinguish first-hand stories from copies that are third-hand and to put Mormon and non Mormon tales into an encapsulated mosaic. It's both thrilling and informative. FawnBrodie was able to take on the task of professional success. Her research and writing made her immortalized with the world's attention: Thaddeus Stevens. The Devil Drives (1959) Scourge Of the South The Portrait of Sir Richard Burton (1967) Thomas Jefferson. An intimate Historiography (1974) as well as posthumously Richard Nixon.