When a whooping cough epidemic convinced Brodie's mother to homeschool Fawn's sister, Flora, who was two years older, Fawn more than kept pace. At three she memorized and recited lengthy poems. īrodie early demonstrated precociousness. The young Fawn was perpetually embarrassed that their house did not have indoor plumbing. ĭespite the prominence of her family in the church, they lived in genteel poverty, their property burdened by unpayable debt.
McKay, was an LDS Church apostle when Brodie was born and later became the church's ninth president.
Her father, Thomas Evans McKay, was a bishop, president of the LDS Church's Swiss-Austrian Mission, and an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Brimhall, was president of Brigham Young University. Both her parents descended from families influential in early Mormonism. Born in Ogden, Utah, she grew up in Huntsville, about ten miles (16 km) east. Brodie concluded he had done so, a conclusion supported by a 1998 DNA analysis and current scholarly consensus.įawn McKay was the second of five children of Thomas E. Her best-selling psychobiography of Thomas Jefferson, published in 1974, was the first modern examination of evidence that Jefferson had taken his slave Sally Hemings as a concubine and fathered children by her. the work of a mature scholar represented the first genuine effort to come to grips with the contradictory evidence about Smith's early life" and as a work that presented conjecture as fact.
Although Fawn Brodie eventually became one of the first tenured female professors of history at UCLA, she is best known for her five biographies, four of which incorporate insights from Freudian psychology.īrodie's depiction of Smith in 1945 as a fraudulent "genius of improvisation" has been described as both a "beautifully written biography. Raised in Utah in a respected, if impoverished, family who were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Fawn McKay drifted away from Mormonism during her years of graduate work at the University of Chicago and married Bernard Brodie, an academic who became a national defense expert they had three children. Fawn McKay Brodie (Septem– January 10, 1981) was an American biographer and one of the first female professors of history at UCLA, who is best known for Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1974), a work of psychobiography, and No Man Knows My History (1945), an early biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
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