Fawn Mckay

Fawn MCK Brodie was born on September 15th, 1915 in Ogden Utah. Reared in the Mormon Church's first family Fawn McKay directed her ingenious writing talents as well as her remarkable researching skills in the creation of an amazing psycho-historical account of Joseph Smith, published in 1945, entitled The Only Man Knows My History. This title is derived from a funeral sermon given by the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints in 1844. He shocked the congregation with his words: You don't know me and you've never known my heart. My history is not known to anyone. I cannot tell it. Wrote the 29-year old Fawn: Since this moment of honesty, at least three-score writers have picked up the challenge. Some have deified and abused him, while others have tried to pinpoint the problem. The problem isn't that there aren't enough documents however they're wildly divergent. The task is to sort out first-hand testimony from third hand fraud and then blending Mormon and non-Mormon narratives into a mosaic of credible theology. This is interesting and instructive. Fawn brodie was professionally committed to this task. Thaddeus Stewards, the result from her writing and study led her to become a famous writer. The Devil drives (1959). The Life of Sir Richard Burton (1967) Thomas Jefferson. The Intimate Histories (1974) as well as Richard Nixon.