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  <name><![CDATA[Richard Allen]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA['Richard Allen' is the name on the front cover of the million-selling &lt;i&gt;Skinhead&lt;/i&gt; 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.&lt;br&gt;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 younger readers; his editorial board came up with the idea of commissioning a novel set in the emerging skinhead subculture. In six days Moffatt wrote &lt;i&gt;Skinhead&lt;/i&gt;. The book was an immediate hit, and many of its youthful readers were convinced that the author was a real hooligan, not a 55-year-old Canadian who always wore a jacket and tie and whose lurid tales of sex and street violence were written from the same seafront cottage in Sidmouth in which he also penned a column for the local paper. Soon after &lt;i&gt;Skinhead Farewell&lt;/i&gt; Moffatt's real-life relationship with NEL came to an end.&lt;br&gt;Moffatt died of cancer in the early nineties, just at the time when the skinhead style was coming back into fashion.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>    <born_at>01/01/1920</born_at>  <died_at>01/01/1993</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Complete Richard Allen, Vol. 1: Skinhead, Suedehead, and Skinhead Escapes]]></title>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Attack of the 'B' Movie Posters (The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters Series Vol. 14)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Allen]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Complete Richard Allen, Vol. 4: Bootboys, Smoothies and Terrace Terrors]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Allen]]></name>
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        <book id="374261">
  <title><![CDATA[The Complete Richard Allen, Vol. 2: Skinhead Girls, Sorts, Knuckle Girls]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Allen]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
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  <published>1993</published>  
  
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        <book id="2475116">
  <title><![CDATA[Damn Yankees]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Allen]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jerry Ross]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Hitchcock's Romantic Irony]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Allen]]></name>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Suedehead]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Allen]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
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  <published>1971</published>  
  
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        <book id="1931573">
  <title><![CDATA[The Complete Richard Allen, Vol 3: Trouble for Skinhead, Skinhead Farewell, Top-gear Skin]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Allen]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.33</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3</ratings_count>
  <published>1994</published>  
  
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        <book id="1854257">
  <title><![CDATA[Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Allen]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Malcolm Turvey]]></name>
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  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <published>2001</published>  
  
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        <book id="374265">
  <title><![CDATA[The Complete Richard Allen, Vol. 6: Glam, Teeny Bopper Idol, Demo]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Allen]]></name>
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  <average_rating>2.67</average_rating>
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  <published>1997</published>  
  
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