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No Man Knows My History
''No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith'' is a 1945 book by Fawn McKay Brodie, the first important non-hagiographic biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of Latter Day Saint movement. The book has not gone out of print, and 60 years after its first publication, its publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, continues to sell about a thousand copies annually.〔Richard Lyman Bushman, ''On the Road with Joseph Smith: An Author's Diary'', 4.〕 A revised edition appeared in 1971, and on the 50th anniversary of its first publication, Utah State University issued a volume of retrospective essays about the book, its author, and her methods.〔Newell Bringhurst, ''Reconsidering'' No Man Knows My History (Utah State University, 1996).〕
==Background==
Reared in Utah in a respected, if impoverished, Mormon family, Brodie drifted away from religion during her graduate studies in literature at the University of Chicago. Having found temporary employment at the Harper Library, Brodie began researching the origins of Mormonism. Progress toward her eventual goal of writing a full biography of Joseph Smith was slowed by the birth of her first child and by three rapid moves to follow her husband's career, but in 1943, Brodie entered a three-hundred page draft of her book in a contest for the Alfred A. Knopf literary fellowship, and in May her application was judged the best of the forty-four entries.〔Michael Kammen, ''In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 21; Newell G. Bringhurst, ''Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer's Life'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 80.〕
Brodie's research was enlarged and critiqued by other students of Mormonism, most notably Dale L. Morgan (1914–1971), who became a lifelong friend, mentor, and sounding board.〔"Despite his own deep fascination with Mormonism's past, Morgan...was not a practicing Latter-day Saint." Bringhurst, 86. Yet Morgan twice critiqued Brodie's manuscript with "alarming frankness" convincing Brodie that what she had already written read too much like an exposé. "In general, Morgan was much more incisive and penetrating in his critique than the Knopf panel had been in awarding Brodie her fellowship. The difference was that Morgan knew Mormon history and the Knopf readers did not." (88) After publication of ''No Man Knows My History'', Morgan (probably unwisely) wrote for Saturday Review of Literature a glowing review of a book in whose production he had played a central role.〕 Brodie finally completed her biography of Smith in 1944, and it was published the following year by Knopf, when the author was thirty.〔Bringhurst, 96–97.〕
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