Fawn Mckay

Fawn McKay was born 15 September 1915 in Ogden, Utah. Fawn MCKAY, educated in the Mormon First Family of the Church made use of her talent for writing and skills in researching to produce the captivating psycho-historical biographical account of Joseph Smith. Published in 1945, under the name No Man has My History, she used both. The title comes from a funeral sermon given by the founding father of the Church of Latter-Day Saints in 1844. He shocked people with a statement: You don't know me I never told you about my heart. Nobody knows my story. I'm unable to share it. Fawn wrote the 29-year-old Fawn. Since that time the three authors have responded to the call. A lot of them have denigrated him and some have deified him; a small number have tried their luck with a diagnosis made by a doctor. It's not so much that the documents are insufficient, however they are fiercely contradictory. The job of gathering these documents--of sifting first-hand account from third-hand plagiarism of fitting Mormon as well as non-Mormon stories into an assemblage that is credible history. The process is thrilling and enlightening. That's the mission to which Fawn Brodie dedicated herself professionally. Her work in research and writing brought her fame around the world: Thaddeus Stephens. Scourge Of The South (1959) The Devil Drives. Thomas Jefferson. A Personal History (1974) and a posthumously Richard Nixon.