# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-mckenna
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:55:06.749Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-mckenna"
name: "Richard McKenna"
slug: "richard-mckenna"
description: "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."
tagline: "American writer (1913-1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/McKenna_Sand_Pebbles_115.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1913-05-09"
deathDate: "1964-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.43024
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0571414"
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    title: "Richard McKenna"
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    title: "Richard McKenna"
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    title: "Richard McKenna"
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    title: "Richard McKenna"
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    title: "Річард Маккенна"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump