Fawn M. Brodie

Fawn McKay Brodie was a biographer and one of the first female professors of history at UCLA, who is best known for Thomas Jefferson An Intimate History , a work of psychobiography, and No Man Knows My History , an early and still influential nonhagiographic biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Fawn McKay was the second of five children of Thomas E. McKay and Fawn Brimhall. Born in Ogden, Utah, she grew up in Huntsville, about ten miles east. Both her parents descended from families influential in early Mormonism. Her maternal grandfather, George H. Brimhall, was president of Brigham Young University. Her father, Thomas Evans McKay, was a bishop, president of the LDS SwissAustrian mission, and an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Brodies paternal uncle was David O. McKay, an apostle in the LDS Church when Brodie was born, who later became the ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints.

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