# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fawn-m-brodie
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:31:54.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fawn-m-brodie"
name: "Fawn M. Brodie"
slug: "fawn-m-brodie"
description: "Fawn McKay Brodie was an American biographer and one of the first female professors of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (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."
tagline: "American historian and biographer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f0/Fawn_McKay_Brodie.png/330px-Fawn_McKay_Brodie.png"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-09-15"
deathDate: "1981-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.16
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.187153333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fawn_M._Brodie"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A5%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A"
    title: "فون إم برودي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85._%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%89"
    title: "فاون ام. برودى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawn_M._Brodie"
    title: "Fawn M. Brodie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawn_McKay_Brodie"
    title: "Fawn McKay Brodie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawn_McKay_Brodie"
    title: "Fawn McKay Brodie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%88%DB%8C"
    title: "فاون ایم بروڈی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3067654"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump