![]() ![]() ![]() Initially, No Man Knows My History, in the words of Dale Morgan, ran up "against a wall of silence. ![]() Not all Utahns shared the Standard-Examiner's enthusiasm - least of all spokesmen for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She then did graduate work at the University of Chicago, receiving her master's degree in English in 1936 at the age of twenty. She sailed through school, graduating from Ogden High in 1930 at age fourteen and from the University of Utah in 1934 at eighteen with highest honors. Young Fawn excelled in school and by the age of nine had already demonstrated her skills as a writer, having one of her poems published in Child Life, a national periodical for children. Brimhall, a one-time president of Brigham Young University in the early twentieth century. Fawn Brimhall (after whom she was named), was the daughter of George H. McKay, the future church president who in 1945 was already a member of the church's First Presidency. ![]() McKay, an assistant to the Twelve and the niece of David O. Born Fawn McKay in Ogden, Utah, on September 15, 1915, she was the daughter of Thomas E. Brodie, in terms of her background and intelligence, seemed highly qualified to write a biography of Mormonism's founder. Brodie's No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith. KNOPF PUBLISHED the first edition of Fawn M. ![]()
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