Fawn Mckay

Fawn McKay's birthplace was Ogden Utah on September 15 1915. Fawn MacKay, who was a member of the Mormon Church's original family, used her astonishing abilities as a writer and her formidable abilities to research in order to write the psycho-historical biographies about Joseph Smith. The book, No Man knows My History was published in 1945. The title comes from the funeral sermon delivered by Joseph Smith, creator of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. The preacher shocked the audience when he said saying: "You don't even know my name. There is no way to know the depths of my soul." Nobody knows my past. No one knows my history. I wrote the 29-year-old Fawn at the time: Ever since this moment of honesty, at least three-score writers have taken up the battle. The documents do not lack, they just contradict each other. Compiling these documents - - by sifting through third-party and first-hand sources and fitting the Mormons' stories to those of those of non-Mormons into a true time-line - is a thorny task. This is exciting as well as educational. FawnBrodie embraced this professional project with gusto and enthusiasm. Her work in research and writing made her famous all over the world: Thaddeus Stephens. The Devil drives (1959). Thomas Jefferson. Richard Nixon, An Intimate historical account (1974) The posthumous.