Fawn M. Brodie
Fawn M. Brodie
Fawn McKay Brodiewas a biographer and one of the first female professors of history at UCLA, who is best known for Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, a work of psychobiography, and No Man Knows My History, an early and still influential non-hagiographic biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth15 September 1915
CountryUnited States of America
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... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.