Richard McKenna
Richard McKenna was born in Idaho in 1913. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1931 to help support his mother and younger brothers and spent over twenty years in the Navy, serving for a while in China on a gunboat that patrolled the Yangtze River. He drew on his personal experiences for this book, The Sand Pebbles.After retiring from service, McKenna attended the University of North Carolina on the G.I. Bill and, after settling in Chapel Hill, he began publishing science fiction stories but it wasn't...
