Fawn Mckay
Fawn MCK Brodie was born 15th September 1915 in Ogden Utah. Born into the Mormon Church's original family Fawn McKay was able to direct her innovative writing talents as well as her remarkable research skills to creating an outstanding psycho-historical biographical biography of Joseph Smith, published in 1945 under the title The Only Man knows My History. The title was an inspiration for a funeral sermon delivered in 1844 by Church of Latter-Day Saints founder Joseph Smith. In that sermon he said: "You do not know the person I am, and have never met my soul." No one knows my story. There is no way for me to share it with you. Wrote the 29-year old Fawn in that moment of candor at least three-score writers have picked up the battle. Some have attacked him, while others have glorified him. Some have tried their hands at diagnosing him. The problem isn't that documents are lacking it is rather that they're in complete contradiction. Assembling these documents - by sifting through third-party and first-hand sources, and integrating the Mormons' stories to those of those of non-Mormons into a true time-line - is a thorny task. This is fascinating and educational. FawnBrodie was able to take on this expert project with gusto and enthusiasm. Her research as well as her writing earned her world-wide fame: Thaddeus Stevens. "The Devil's Drive" (1959) The Southern Scourge. Thomas Jefferson. The Intimate Histories (1974) as well as Richard Nixon.





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