Richard McKenna
 Richard
McKenna (1913- 1964) was an American sailor and writer.
McKenna served his 22 years in the Navy, retiring shortly after the Korean War
as a Chief Machinists Mate. He took advantage of the GI bill to go to college,
where he studied creative writing. He attended University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, and, while there, he fell in love with, and married, one of the
librarians.
His most well-known work was The Sand Pebbles (1962), made into the well-known
1966 film of the same title. The hero was an enlisted career sailor on a US Navy
river gunboat named the San Pablo in China during the 1920s. McKenna himself
served aboard a river gunboat on the Yangtze Patrol, but about ten years
following the events in his novel.
He began his writing career publishing science fiction. His posthumously
published short story "The Secret Place" won the Nebula Award for Best Short
Story in 1966 and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1967.
Casey Agonistes and Other Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (1973) collects
the title story and four other short works.
Selected Bibliography
Shortfiction
- The Night of
Hoggy Darn (1958) [as by R. M.
McKenna ]
- Casey
Agonistes (1958) [as by R. M.
McKenna ]
- The
Fishdollar Affair (1958) [as by R. M.
McKenna ]
- The Night of
Hoggy Darn (1958)
- Love and
Moondogs (1959)
- Mine Own
Ways (1960)
- Hunter, Come
Home (1963)
- The Secret
Place (1966)
- Home the
Hard Way (1967)
- Fiddler's
Green (1967)
- Home the
Hard Way (1967)
- They Are Not
Robbed (1968)
- Bramble Bush
(1968)
- Unclear Call
for Lee (1971)
Cover Art
- Cover:
Amazing Stories, August 1964 (1964)
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