Fawn Mckay

Fawn McKay's birthplace was Ogden Utah on September 15 1915. She was a member of the Mormon Church's original family Fawn McKay directed her ingenious literary talents and remarkable research skills to creating an outstanding psycho-historical biographical biography of Joseph Smith, published in 1945, entitled The Only Man is able to know My History. That title was taken from a funeral speech delivered by the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints in 1844, when he shocked his listeners by declaring"You don't even know me." I never told you about my heart. No man knows my history. The truth is that I'm not sure. Wrote the 29-year old Fawn at the time: Ever since the moment when he spoke, about three dozen writers have taken up the gauntlet. These documents are not lacking but they do contradict one with respect to each other. It's a daunting job to find these records by separating the first-hand versions from third-hand copies and fitting Mormon accounts with those of non-Mormon people into a coherent collection. It is fascinating and informative. Fawn Brodie's professional life was devoted to this aim. Thaddeus Stevens. Stevens is immortalized in her work and the fruits of her studies. "The Devil's Drive" (1959) The Slaughter of the South. Thomas Jefferson. A Personal Historiography (1974) and posthumously Richard Nixon.