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Fawn McKay Brodie

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Born September 15, 1915
Died January 10, 1981 (65 years old)
Ogden, United States
Also known as: Fawn M. Brodie, Fawn (McKay) Brodie
6 books
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Fawn McKay Brodie (September 15, 1915 – 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. [source](