![]() ![]() The lifestyle, the emphasis on continuity and family, made sense to her she loved and relied upon it. Though she was the daughter of a BYU President, and the wife of Thomas Evans McKay, she had real doubts about Mormon dogma. But Fawn’s mother and namesake, Fawn Brimhall McKay, was a closet heretic. The literature routinely described religious miracles as facts.įawn’s father was quite devout and spent much of the 1930’s as a Mormon missionary in Europe. The lives of these Mormons patriarchs were presented to be read and admired, never in a critical light. She grew up with a lot of hagiography surrounding Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and other Mormon leaders. The Mormon Church and its publications were a huge part in their lives, and Fawn was a bookish kid who read whatever she could get her hands on. At ten, she had a poem published in a Mormon youth magazine. At three, she could recite long poems from memory. Her parents noticed Fawn’s intelligence very early. ![]() More important to her parents was that the family knelt together to pray every night. She hated the fact that their house didn’t have indoor plumbing. ![]() Both her father and uncle were quite well known in Utah, and her maternal grandfather had served as President of Brigham Young University for almost 20 years.īut Fawn’s branch of the McKay family lived in a genteel poverty. She was raised in Utah, the second of five children in a prominent Mormon family. ![]()
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