Fawn Brodie (1915–1981)
Auteur de Thomas Jefferson : An Intimate History
A propos de l'auteur
The late Fawn M. Brodie was professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of several other noted biographies, including The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton, also published in Norton paperback.
Œuvres de Fawn Brodie
No Man Knows my History-Life of Joseph Smith 1 exemplaire
Sir Richard Burton 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley (1962) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 13 exemplaires
The Word from Weber County. A Centennial Anthology of our Best Writers (1996) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn: And Other Stories of Growing Up in Utah (2008) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 14, Number 2 (Summer 1981) (1981) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Brodie, Fawn
- Nom légal
- Brodie, Fawn McKay
- Autres noms
- Brodie, Fawn M.
- Date de naissance
- 1915-09-15
- Date de décès
- 1981-01-10
- Lieu de sépulture
- ashes scattered over Santa Monica Mountains
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Ogden, Utah, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Cause du décès
- lung cancer
- Lieux de résidence
- Ogden, Utah, USA
Huntsville, Utah, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Études
- Weber College
University of Utah (BA|1934)
University of Chicago (MA|1936) - Professions
- historian
university professor
biographer - Relations
- Brodie, Bernard (husband)
McKay, David O. (uncle) - Organisations
- University of California, Los Angeles
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (excommunicated 1946)
Utah State Historical Society (fellow) - Prix et distinctions
- Fellow of the Utah State Historical Society
- Courte biographie
- Fawn McKay grew up in a devout Mormon family in Huntsville, Utah. She earned a B.A. in English literature from the University of Utah and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. In 1936, she married scholar Bernard Brodie, who became a noted expert in Cold War military strategy. Both families opposed the marriage. Fawn Brodie worked for a while at the Harper Library at the University of Chicago, where she began doing the lengthy research for a biography of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, eventually published as No Man Knows My History (1944). The book received wide critical acclaim, but the Mormon Church strenuously objected to it and excommunicated Fawn Brodie as a heretic. She went on to write works on Thaddeus Stevens, Sir Richard Burton, and Thomas Jefferson. The latter was a bestseller and the first to publicly prove that Jefferson had fathered children with the slave Sally Hemings. Fawn Brodie was also one of the first female professors of history at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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- Œuvres
- 8
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- 11
- Membres
- 2,439
- Popularité
- #10,519
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 33
- ISBN
- 33
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 1