Rod Hall (literary agent)
Roderick Thomas Berringer Hall was a British literary agent who represented several successful writers.
Biography
Hall was born in Sussex, England. His parents ran a fruit farm.He was educated at Priory Grammar School, Lewes and studied English at the University of Edinburgh graduating with a master's degree in 1974. While at the university he established the first ever gay and lesbian society.
Having worked for London agency AP Watt, he established the Rod Hall Agency Limited in 1997.
Hall was found dead, with multiple stab wounds, chained to a radiator, in his Southwark apartment. In 2005, Usman Durrani, a 20-year-old student at the University of Edinburgh was convicted of Hall's murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Following his death, the films Driving Lessons and Imagine Me & You as well as the stage play Mercury Fur were dedicated to him.