Fawn Mckay
Fawn McKay was born in Ogden Utah on September 15 1915. She was a member of the Mormon Church's first family Fawn McKay directed her ingenious literary talents and remarkable research skills to creating an amazing psycho-historical account of Joseph Smith, published in 1945, entitled No Man Knows My History. The title was inspired by a funeral speech delivered in 1844 by Church of Latter-Day Saints founder, Joseph Smith. In that sermon he said: "You do not know who I am and have never met my soul." No man knows my history. The truth is that I'm not sure. I wrote the 29-year-old Fawn in that moment of candor more than three writers have jumped on the challenge. Many have abhorred him and others have glorified. A few have even made a diagnosis. It's not that documents are not there, but the fact that they're contradictory. Assembling these documents - sifting through first-hand and third-hand sources, fitting Mormons' narratives to those of non-Mormons into a true history - is challenging. It is both exciting and informative. Fawn Brodie's career was dedicated to this goal. Her writings and research earned her fame all over the world. Thaddeus Stephens. The DevilDrives. The life of Sir Richard Burton (1967) Thomas Jefferson. Richard Nixon and An Intimate Historical History (1974).





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