Richard Neville (writer)

Richard Neville
BornRichard Clive Neville
(1941-12-15)15 December 1941
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died4 September 2016(2016-09-04) (aged 74)
Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
  • Author
  • presenter
  • satirist
  • editor
  • speaker
Notable worksOZ Magazine editor (London, UK); Hippie Hippie Shake; Play Power, Amerika Psycho; Playing Around, Out of My Mind: From Flower Power
SpouseJulie Clarke
Children2

Richard Clive Neville (15 December 1941 – 4 September 2016)[1] was an Australian writer and social commentator who came to fame as an editor of the counterculture magazine OZ in Australia and the United Kingdom in the 1960s and early 1970s.[2] He was educated as a boarder at Knox Grammar School and enrolled for an arts degree at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Australian political magazine The Monthly described Neville as a "pioneer of the war on deference".[3]

  1. ^ Rowe, Marsha; Robertson, Geoffrey (4 September 2016). "Richard Neville obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Richard Neville". Celebrity Speakers. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  3. ^ "Richard Neville & Charles Sobhraj". The Monthly. 20 April 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2016.