Fawn Mckay

Fawn McKay Brodie was born in Ogden Utah on September 15 1915. Fawn was a part of the Mormon Church's longest-running family, combined her literary expertise and impressive research skills into an outstanding biography of Joseph Smith. No Man knew My History appeared in 1945. It was derived from the title of a sermon given by Joseph Smith in 1844. In the sermon, he shocked his hearers with the statement: You are not my friend and have not heard my voice. Nobody knows my story. Nobody knows my story. Wrote the 29-year old Fawn at the time: Ever since the moment when he spoke, more than three writers have jumped on the gauntlet. They do not have a lack of documents, they just contradict each with respect to each other. To assemble the documents -and separate the firsthand stories from plagiarism by third parties, and finally, to put Mormon and non Mormon narratives together into an authentic mosaic, is not an difficult job. This is both exciting and instructive. Fawn Brodie's career was devoted to this aim. Her writings and research earned her fame all over the world: Thaddeus Stephens. The Devil Drives (1959) Scourge Of The South Thomas Jefferson. A Personal Historiography (1974) as well as posthumously Richard Nixon.