Richard McKenna
Richard Milton McKenna was an American sailor and writer. In the late 1950s, he began writing science fiction stories, and is best known for his 1963 historical novel The Sand Pebbles, which tells the story of an American sailor serving aboard a gunboat on the Chinese Yangtze River in 1925.
Background
- Born in
- Mountain Home
- Educated at
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Awards
- 🏆 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
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"My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush …"
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1913
Born
Birth1964
Died
Death
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