Leonard Moore (literary agent)

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Leonard Parker Moore (died January 1959 [1] ) was an English literary agent.

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A partner of Christy & Moore [2] and of the Lecture Agency, Ltd., [3] his clients included George Orwell (from 1932 to 1950 [4] ), Gordon Campbell, [3] Mary Butts, [5] Georgette Heyer [6] (for nearly 30 years from 1922 [7] ), Carola Oman, [7] Marco Pallis, [7] Catherine Cookson, [7] Jane Mander, [8] Ruby M. Ayres, [9] Gareth Jones, [10] Wilfred Grenfell, [11] and Ruth Collie. [12]

Injured in the leg in the First World War, [3] Moore worked as a journalist before becoming a literary agent. [7] He was the brother of the novelist Henry Moore. [7]

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]

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