Fawn Mckay

Fawn McCay, was born in Ogden Utah September 15, 1915. Reared in the Mormon Church's first family Fawn McKay directed her ingenious literary talents and remarkable researching skills in the creation of the brilliant psycho-historical biography of Joseph Smith, published in 1945, entitled No Man knows My History. That title was taken from a funeral sermon given by the founding father of the Church of Latter-Day Saints in 1844. He shocked his listeners by declaring: You don't know me you never knew my heart. No one has ever heard of my life. Nobody knows my story. Fawn (29 an age) said that, after her confessional moment the three hundred and thirty writers have stood up to the event. Some have attempted to establish a medical diagnosis. Documents do not lack, but they are contradictory. The task is to sort out personal testimony from third party inconsistencies and integrating Mormon-related narratives into a coherent theology. It's both thrilling, and also instructive. FawnBrodie was able to take on this expert project with gusto and enthusiasm. Thaddeus S. Stevens is immortalized in her works and the fruit of her study. The Devil Drives (1959) Scourge of the South Thomas Jefferson. An intimate Historiography (1974) and posthumously Richard Nixon.