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Richard Allen

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born

January 01, 1920 in Canada

died

January 01, 1993

gender

male

genre

pulp fiction

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'Richard Allen' is the name on the front cover of the million-selling Skinhead books. The name was thought of by the editors at the London publishing firm New English Library and given by them to Jim Moffatt, one of a number of hack writers who churned out their books to order.
Born of Irish extraction, Jim Moffatt went to Britain and learnt his trade writing up to six stories a week (thrillers, spies, Westerns) for pulp fiction magazines. He moved on to writing books, and by the mid-seventies reckoned he had produced 250 in the previous 20 years, at a rate of 10,000 words a day when deadlines were approaching. Meanwhile, the managing director of the ailing New English Library imprint was desperate to make inroads into a new audience of youn...more

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Average rating: 3.65 · 367 ratings · 70 reviews · 217 distinct works

	The Complete Richard Allen, Vol. 1 3.53 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	Suedehead 3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings	My rating:
	Skinhead 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Richard Allen, Vol. 2 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	The Complete Richard Allen, Vol. 4 3.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Hitchcock's Romantic Irony 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Skinhead Escapes 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings	My rating:
	Unlocking the New Testament: A Side-By-Side Commentary 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Complete Richard Allen, Vol 3: Trouble for Skinhead, Skinhead Farewell, Top-gear Skin 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts by Richard Allen (Editor ), Malcolm Turvey (Editor ) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:

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