Leonard Moore (literary agent)
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Leonard Parker Moore | |
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| Born | |
| Died | January , 1959 |
| Occupation | Literary agent |
| Employer(s) | Christy & Moore and Lecture Agency, Ltd. |
| Known for | Literary agent for George Orwell |
Leonard Parker Moore (died January 1959[1]) was an English literary agent who became known due to being the literary agent for author George Orwell through their letters.
Injured in the leg in the First World War,[2] Moore worked as a journalist before becoming a literary agent.[3]
Career
A partner of Christy & Moore[4] and of the Lecture Agency, Ltd.,[2] his clients included George Orwell (from 1932 to 1950[5]), Gordon Campbell,[2] Mary Butts,[6] Georgette Heyer[7] (for nearly 30 years from 1922[3]), Carola Oman,[3] Marco Pallis,[3] Catherine Cookson,[3] Jane Mander,[8]Ruby M. Ayres,[9] Gareth Jones,[10] Wilfred Grenfell,[11] and Ruth Collie.[12]
Orwell
It was in a letter to Moore, in November 1932, regarding the future publication of Down and Out in Paris and London, that Eric Blair first came up with the pseudonym "George Orwell".[1]
According to the historian Daniel J. Leab, some 500 of Orwell's letters to his agent have survived, of which nearly 100 were acquired by the Lilly Library in 1959.[13]