Fawn Brodie...

[MikeWaters]

...evidence that she was screwed up in the head:

1. homeschooled
2. graduated from Univ. of Utah

so she only "occasionally" taught history at UCLA. I wonder what her title was.

This is hilarious:

Gary Wills's review in the New York Review of Books is as acerbic as it is informative: "Two vast things, each wondrous in itself, combine to make this book a prodigy -— the author's industry, and her ignorance. One can only be so intricately wrong by deep study and long effort, enough to make Ms. Brodie the fasting hermit and very saint of ignorance. The result has an eerie perfection, as if all the world's greatest builders had agreed to rear, with infinite skill, the world's ugliest building." (NYROB Volume 12, Number 6, 18 April 1974)

Was she a kept woman?

Her husband Bernard preceded her in death by cancer in 1978. Brodie maintained many of the values taught by the LDS church such as strong ties to family which may have kept her loyal to Bernard in spite of a difficult marriage.

The author of the article makes a remark on what he considers her bias:

Her second biography, Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South (1959) was consciously an effort the rebuild the reputation of Thaddeus Stevens which she called an "about face" of her Smith biography's aims.

Says she requested a priesthood blessing while ill with cancer, before her death. I guess it's true there are no atheists in foxholes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawn_Brodie