Fawn Mckay

Fawn McKay's birthplace was Ogden Utah on September 15 1915. Born into the Mormon Church's very first family, Fawn McKay was able to direct her innovative writing talents as well as her remarkable researching skills in the creation of the brilliant psycho-historical biography of Joseph Smith, published in 1945, entitled No Man knows My History. This title was inspired by an funeral sermon delivered by the Church of Latter-Day Saints' founder. My story is not known to any one. I don't know. Wrote the 29-year old Fawn in that moment of candor at least three-score writers have jumped on the gauntlet. Some have rebuked him, while others have deified. There are a few who have come to an assessment. Not that the documents are not there, but that they're so inconsistent. In order to assemble these documentsand separate the firsthand sources from a third-party plagiarism and then fit Mormon and non Mormon narratives together into a reliable mosaic isn't an difficult task. It's both thrilling, as well as instructive. Such was the task to which Fawn Brodie devoted herself professionally. Thaddeus Stevens. Stevens was immortalized by her writing and by the results of her studies. The Devil Drives (1959) Scourge Of The Southern Thomas Jefferson. An Intimate History (1974) and later posthumously Richard Nixon.