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| Author | Fawn McKay Brodie |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | 1945; revised ed. 1971 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 576 (1971 ed.) |
| ISBN | 978-0-679-73054-5 |
| OCLC | 36510049 |
| 289.3/092 B 20 | |
| LC Class | BX8695.S6 B7 1995 |
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith is a 1945 book by Fawn M. Brodie that was one of the first significant non-hagiographic biographies of Joseph Smith, the progenitor of the Latter Day Saint movement. No Man Knows My History was influential in the development of Mormon history as a scholarly field.
No Man Knows My History has never been out of print, and 60 years after its first publication, its publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, continues to sell about a thousand copies annually. For a revised edition released in 1971, Brodie added a supplement incorporating psychohistorical commentary. In 1995, Utah State University (USU) marked the 50th anniversary of the book's first publication by hosting a symposium to re-examine the book, its author, and her methods, and in 1996 USU published the symposium papers as a book of essays.