It was there, while working in the cafeteria, that she met Bernard Brodie, a young Jewish student of political science. By the time she entered the University of Chicago for graduate work in 1936, her break with the past was almost complete. She later described this feeling as like taking off a hot coat in the summertime.
It was at the University of Utah she began to feel a quiet kind of liberation from the parochialism of the Mormon community.
By the time she was eighteen, she had attended both Weber State College in Ogden and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and earned a B.A. It was from her mother's family that Fawn Brodie took her course in life.įawn Brodie began her education in the Weber County School District. Her mother, Fawn Brimhall McKay, was in her daughter's phrase a "quiet heretic." Fawn Brodie's maternal uncle, Dean Brimhall, was widely known as a free thinker and scholar. McKay, who later became president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
McKay, was a very devout Mormon, an assistant to the Twelve Apostles, and president of the European Mission. Hers was, by her own account, an idyllic childhood. Brodie was born September 15, 1915, in Ogden, Utah, and raised on the family farm in Huntsville, a small town fifteen miles east of Ogden. WorldCat record id: 496814884įrom the description of Letter, 1946. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). Brodie was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1980 and died on January 10, 1981.įrom the description of Letters about "No man knows my history : the life of Joseph Smith," 1947. Brodie is also known for several other biographies, including those of Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Stevens, Sir Richard Burton, and Richard Nixon. It was condemned by the Mormon Church and Brodie was excommunicated in 1946. Brodie completed a critical biography of Joseph Smith in 1944. By this time she had all but given up her faith in the Mormon Church, and undertook a critical study of the history of theBook of Mormon. from the University of Chicago in 1936, the same year she married Bernard Brodie. She returned to Weber College to teach English after receiving her degree. in English Literature at the University of Utah in 1934. Brodie attended Weber College in Ogden from 1930-1932 before finishing a B.A. McKay as the ninth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her family were active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with her grandfather serving as president of Brigham Young University and uncle David O. Fawn McKay Brodie was born in Ogden, Utah, on September 15, 1915.
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