Fawn Mckay

Fawn McCay, birthplace at Ogden Utah September 15, 1915. Fawn McKay, born into the Mormon Church's First Family, utilized her writing talent as well as skills in researching to produce an intriguing psycho-historical biography of Joseph Smith. Published in 1945 under the title No Man is a Master of My History, she used both. The title came from a funeral sermon delivered by the founding father of the Church of Latter-Day Saints in 1844 when he startled those he addressed with the words: You don't know me and you've never known my heart. No man knows my history. I'm not able to tell my story. Fawn, a 29-year-old woman has written: "Since that moment of truthfulness, three or more writers have risen to the task." They do not have a lack of documents but they do contradict one other. Compiling these documents - - sifting through first-hand and third-hand sources, and integrating Mormons' tales of the past to other people's history - is challenging. This is both exciting, and it's enlightening. Fawn Brodie's professional life was committed to this cause. Thaddeus Stewards, which was the product of her writing and research has made her a famous author. The Devil drives (1959). Thomas Jefferson. The Intimate Histories (1974), and Richard Nixon.