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Richard Milton McKenna (May 9, 1913 – November 1, 1964) was an American sailor and novelist. He was best known for his historical novel The Sand Pebbles, which tells the story of an American sailor serving aboard a gunboat on the Chinese Yangtze River in 1925.
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Learn about the life and work of Richard McKenna, the author of The Sand Pebbles, a best-selling novel set in China. Discover how he became a self-taught writer after a naval career and a college degree.
Richard McKenna. -Menos valorada de lo que tal vez merecería.-. Género. Novela. Edición en español (1970) (no histórica porque, aunque está muy bien localizada en los eventos de un tiempo y lugar concretos, prefiere hacer ficción como eje central de su trama). Lo que nos cuenta.
RICHARD MCKENNA was born and raised in the small desert town of Mountain Home, Idaho. In 1931, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the United States Navy and served for ten years in Asia. Two of those years were on a Yangtze River gunboat.
The Sand Pebbles is a 1962 novel by American author Richard McKenna about a Yangtze River gunboat and its crew in 1926. It was the winner of the 1963 Harper Prize for fiction. The book was initially serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, and in January 1963 it was published by Harper & Row.
