Fawn Mckay

Fawn McKay was born on 15 September 1915 in Ogden Utah. She was a member of the Mormon Church's original family Fawn McKay was able to direct her innovative literary talents and remarkable research skills to creating an amazing psycho-historical account of Joseph Smith, published in 1945, entitled The Only Man Knows My History. That title was taken from a funeral sermon delivered by the founding father of the Church of Latter-Day Saints in 1844. He shocked those he addressed with the words: You don't know me I never told you about my heart. No one knows about my past. The truth is I'm not even sure. I wrote the 29-year-old Fawn in that moment of candor more than three writers have jumped on the challenge. Many have abhorred him and some have praised. Few have made an assessment. It's not that documents aren't there, it's the fact that they're contradictory. The task of assembling these documents--of sifting first-hand account from a third-party copycatting of Mormon as well as non-Mormon stories into a masterpiece that creates an authentic historical claims. The task is fascinating and educational. Fawn Brodie's career was devoted to this aim. Thaddeus Stewards, the result from her writing and study has made her a well-known writer. "The Devil's Drive" (1959) The Slaughter of the South. Thomas Jefferson. A Personal History (1974) as well as posthumously Richard Nixon.