Leonard Moore (literary agent)
Leonard Parker Moore was an English literary agent who became known due to being the literary agent for author George Orwell through their letters.
Early life
Injured in the leg in the First World War, Moore worked as a journalist before becoming a literary agent.Career
A partner of Christy & Moore and of the Lecture Agency, Ltd., his clients included George Orwell, Gordon Campbell, Mary Butts, Georgette Heyer, Carola Oman, Marco Pallis, Catherine Cookson, Jane Mander,Ruby M. Ayres, Gareth Jones, Wilfred Grenfell, and Ruth Collie.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".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.