She published a book claiming that the founder of Mormonism was a fraud. When you're publicly preaching against the core tenets of a religion, it would be inappropriate to claim to be part of that religion. read more
Fawn McKay Brodie (September 15, 1915–January 10, 1981) was a historian, biographer, and professor at UCLA, best known for the biographies Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, an early work of psychohistory, and No Man Knows My History, one of the first non-hagiographic biographies of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism. read more