Fawn Mckay

Fawn Brodie McKay was born September 15, 1915, was raised in Ogden Utah. Reared in the Mormon Church's original family Fawn McKay devoted her brilliant creative writing skills and impressive researching skills in the creation of the brilliant psycho-historical biography of Joseph Smith, published in 1945 under the title The Only Man is able to know My History. The title comes from the funeral sermon delivered by Joseph Smith who was the founder of The Church of Latter-Day Saints. He shocked his audience by declaring: "You don't even know my name. You have never known the depths of my soul." My story is not known to anybody. No one knows my history. Wrote the 29-year old Fawn in this moment of honesty, more than three writers have taken up the battle. Some have attacked him, some have deified him; a few have attempted to make a diagnosing him. The problem isn't that documents are lacking the issue is that they're in complete contradiction. Assembling these documents - sorting through third- and first-hand sources and fitting the Mormons' stories to those of other people's historical context - can be a challenge. This is exciting as well as instructive. FawnBrodie devoted herself to the job. Her work in research and writing brought her fame around all over the globe: Thaddeus Stephens. The DevilDrives. Thomas Jefferson. Richard Nixon, An Intimate history (1974), posthumous.