Richard Neville (writer)
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Richard Neville (born 1941) is an Australian author and futurist, originally known for publishing and editing the counterculture magazine Oz in Australia and the UK in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Career

He was involved with the Sydney Push libertarians at the University of New South Wales in the early 1960s during the production of the Sydney-based Oz Magazine.[1]

Neville was a frequent guest on The Mike Walsh Show in the 1980s.

Portrayals

In the television film The Trials of Oz (1991), Neville was played by Hugh Grant.

The Irish actor Cillian Murphy is currently filming Hippie Hippie Shake (2007), in which he plays Neville. The film is directed by Beeban Kidron.

Books

  • Play Power. London: Cape, 1970. No ISBN
  • The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj Richard Neville and Julie Clarke. Sydney: Pan Books, 1980 ISBN 033027144X
  • Playing Around. Milsons Point, NSW: Arrow Books, 1991. ISBN 0091825474
  • Hippie, Hippie, Shake: The Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-ins, the Screw ups -- the Sixties. Port Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia, 1995. ISBN 0855615230
  • Out of My Mind: From Flower Power to the Third Millennium -- the Seventies, the Eighties and the Nineties. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 1996. ISBN 0140262709
  • Footprints of the Future: Handbook for the Third Millennium. North Sydney, NSW: Richmond, 2002. ISBN 192068803X
  • Amerika Psycho: Behind Uncle Sam’s Mask of Sanity. Melbourne: Ocean Press, 2003. ISBN 1876175621

References

  1. ^ James Franklin "The Push and Critical Drinkers" Ch. 5 of Corrupting the Youth: A History of Australian Philosophy. Accessed August 18, 2007.

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NAME Neville, Richard
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SHORT DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Australia
DATE OF DEATH
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