births
September 15, 1915
Fawn M. Brodie, American historian and author (died 1981)
Fawn M. Brodie
Fawn McKay Brodie was an American biographer and one of the first female professors of history at UCLA. She 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.