Fawn Mckay

Fawn McKay was born in Ogden Utah on September 15 1915. Fawn MacKay, a Mormon who was part of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints' original family was able to combine her ability to write and her remarkable research skills in order to produce the brilliant, psychohistorical book The book, No Man knows My History, which was published in 1945. That title was taken from a funeral speech delivered by the founding father of the Church of Latter-Day Saints in 1844 when he startled people with a statement"You're not my friend, and you've never known my heart. No one knows about my past. I'm not able to tell my story. Wrote the 29-year old Fawn in that day of truth, about three dozen writers have joined in the fight. A few have denigrated and used the man, and others are trying to find out the root of the cause. There's nothing wrong with it. It's not that there aren't enough documents instead, they're completely inconsistent. The task is to distinguish the first hand account from third-hand plagiarization and to blend Mormon accounts with other religions to create the context of a credible historical narrative. This is both exciting and instructive. This is the kind of task to which Fawn Brodie devoted herself professionally. Thaddeus Stewards, a result of her work and research led her to become a famous writer. The Devil Drives (1959) Scourge Of The South The Portrait of Sir Richard Burton (1967) Thomas Jefferson. A Personal History (1974) and later posthumously Richard Nixon.