Fawn Mckay

Fawn Brodie McKay, who was born September 15, 1915, was born in Ogden Utah. Fawn MCKAY, who was born into the Mormon Church's First Family, used her literary talent and research abilities to create an intriguing psycho-historical biography of Joseph Smith. Published in 1945 with the title: No Man is a Master of My History, she used both. That title was taken from a funeral speech delivered by the founding father of the Church of Latter-Day Saints in 1844. In the sermon, he wowed the congregation with his words"You're not my friend, I never told you about my heart. Nobody knows my story. I am not able to tell you. me to divulge it. I wrote the 29-year old Fawn at the time: Ever since that moment of candor there have been at least three hundred writers who have stepped up to the plate. Numerous have accused him of being a liar, and others have deified him; a few have tried their hands with a diagnosis made by a doctor. It's not because the records aren't complete, the issue is that they're in complete contradiction. The task of assembling the documents, of separating firsthand accounts from third-hand and fabricated plagiarism, of putting Mormon and non-Mormon narratives into an assemblage that is credible historiography. The process is thrilling and enlightening. FawnBrodie accepted the challenge of a professional. The fruits of her research and writing immortalized her with the world's attention: Thaddeus Stevens. Scourge Of The South (1959) The Devil Drives. The Portrait of Sir Richard Burton (1967) Thomas Jefferson. The intimate Histories (1974) And Richard Nixon.