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The Sand Pebbles

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Reginald McKenna

British banker and Liberal politician (1863–1943)

Reginald McKenna (6 July 1863 – 6 September 1943) was a British banker and Liberal politician. His first Cabinet post under Henry Campbell-Bannerman was as President of the Board of Education, after which he served as First Lord of the Admiralty. His most important roles were as Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer during the premiership of H. H. Asquith. He was studious and meticulous, noted for his attention to detail, but also for being bureaucratic and partisan.[2][page needed][3]

Background and education

Born in Kensington, London,[1] McKenna was the son of William Columban McKenna and his wife Emma, daughter of Charles Hanby.[1]Sir Joseph Neale McKenna was his uncle. McKenna was educated at King's College School and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[4] At Cambridge he was a notable rower. In 1886, he was a member of the Trinity Hall Boat Clubeight that won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta.[5] He row

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The Wikipedia article on Richard McKenna covers his life and fiction reasonably well. But if you’re feeling lazy, I asked ChatGPT to summarize it for you.

Richard McKenna (1913–1964) was an American naval officer and author known for his acclaimed debut novel, The Sand Pebbles(1962). Born in Idaho, McKenna served in the U.S. Navy for over two decades. The Sand Pebbles explores the life of a sailor on a U.S. gunboat in China during the turbulent 1920s. The novel garnered widespread praise and was later adapted into a successful film. Unfortunately, McKenna’s promising literary career was cut short by his untimely death in 1964. Despite a limited body of work, his fiction remains well-thought of today.

This article of his, reflecting on how he became a writer, was originally published in The Texas Quarterly, Winter 1963 as Journey With a Little Man.

IF I HAVE LEARNED ANYTHING IN THE PROCESS OF BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL writer, it is that there are as many ways of becoming a writer as there are writers.

I am going to talk only about the way that worked for

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