Fawn Mckay

Fawn Brodie McKay was born September 15, 1915 was a native of Ogden Utah. Fawn MacKay, who was a member of the Mormon Church's original family, applied her brilliant abilities as a writer and her formidable researching skills to write the psycho-historical biographies of Joseph Smith. The book called"No Man knows My History was published in 1945. It was derived from the sermon title delivered by Joseph Smith in 1844. In the sermon, he stunned his listeners by stating: "You are not my friend and you've never listened to my voice. Nobody knows my story. I cannot tell it. Fawn an older woman, aged 29 wrote: "Since that moment of candor, at least three writers have picked up the task." Many have abhorred him and some have praised. A few have even made a diagnosis. Not that the documents are missing, it's that they're so inconsistent. The task of assembling these papers--of sorting first-hand information from third-hand plagiarism of fitting Mormon and non-Mormon narratives to create a picture that is plausible history. This is both exciting and instructive. Such was the task to which Fawn Brodie put her professional energy into. Her work in research and writing brought her fame around the world. Thaddeus Stephens. The Scourge of the South (1959) The Devil Drives. Thomas Jefferson. A personal history of Richard Nixon (1974) as also posthumously Richard Nixon.