Fawn Mckay

Fawn McKay's birthplace was Ogden Utah on September 15 1915. Fawn McKay, raised in the Mormon Church's First Family, used her literary talent and expertise in research to write the intriguing biographical psycho-historical study of Joseph Smith. Published in 1945 under the title"No Man Knows My History, she used both. It was derived from the sermon title that Joseph Smith delivered in 1844. In the sermon, he amazed his audience by stating: "You don't know me, and you have never heard my voice. My history is unknown to anybody. I cannot tell it. Fawn has written the 29-year-old Fawn. Since then, at least three writers have risen to the challenge. A lot of people have detested him while some have praised. Few have made the diagnosis. Not that the documents are missing, it's that they are so contradictory. It's not an easy job to find these records, separating first-hand accounts from copies that are third-hand and integrating Mormon narratives with non-Mormon ones into a coherent collection. This is both exciting and instructive. This is the kind of task to which Fawn Brodie devoted herself professionally. Thaddeus Stewards, the result of her writing and research led her to become a famous writer. Scourge of the Southern (1959) The Devil Drives. The life of Sir Richard Burton (1967) Thomas Jefferson. The intimate Histories (1974), and Richard Nixon.