Fawn Mckay

Fawn McKay's Brodie was born Ogden Utah on September 15 1915. Fawn MacKay was a Mormon belonging to the Church of Latter-Day Saints' first line of family has fused her amazing writing skills with her impressive research skills in order to publish the dazzling psychohistorical book"No Man knows My History, which was published in 1945. It's a name derived from a funeral address that Joseph Smith delivered. The speech declared: You weren't aware of my name and didn't have a clue about my heart. No one knows about my past. It's impossible for me to reveal it. The 29-year-old wrote Fawn at the time: Ever since that day of truth, about three dozen writers have joined in the fight. Some have deified and abused him, while others have attempted to diagnose the cause. There is nothing to suggest it's that the documents aren't sufficient, but they're rather divergent. The process of collating these documents--of sifting first-hand account from second-hand plagiarism and fitting Mormon as well as non-Mormon stories into the kind of mosaic that can be considered to be credible history. This is both exciting and instructive. Such was the task to which Fawn Brodie devoted herself professionally. Her writing and research brought her recognition around the globe: Thaddeus Stephens. The Devil Drives (1959) Scourge of the South Thomas Jefferson. An intimate The Story of Thomas Jefferson (1974) and posthumously Richard Nixon.