Robert Kennedy

At the time of her death BB was working on a novel set at the time of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy , to be entitled The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress. She...

The novel presents two characters travelling by car across the USA in the summer of 1968, a dysfunctional country in an apocalyptic phase, where Bobby Kennedy is running for president. They are an Englishwoman named...

Vietnam was the result of this first trip to Saigon (also known as Ho Chi Minh City). It was first published as a three-part series and later collected in a pamphlet. McCarthy's simple yet direct...

She constructed her male pseudonym from the name of Robert F. Kennedy (a political hero to her) and a childhood fantasy name, Ella Galbraith.