Who was Richard Allen?
Richard Allen was a nom-de-plume employed by James Moffat (1922-1993), who penned several successful pulp novels on British youth subcultures of the 1970s for the New English Library (NEL), most notably the Skinhead series. He also wrote as Etienne Aubin and Trudi Maxwell for the imprint, albeit less successfully. He was not a skinhead but a jobbing journalist paid to knock out quick copy for NEL’s exploitation genre novels and while the first book in the series was slow to catch on, its later success saw many sequels and spin-offs.
