Eleanor Friede (d. 2008) was an American book editor and literary agent, best known for bringing the 1970 novella Jonathan Livingston Seagull to publication.
Friede was born Eleanor Kask in Rochester, New York, and grew up in Valley Stream.
She graduated with honors from Hofstra University and shortly thereafter went to work for World Publishing in publicity and marketing.
Friede was working as a marketing director at Macmillan in 1968 when company president Jeremiah Kaplan convinced her to become an editor.
Following Delacorte's purchase by Doubleday in the early 1980s she launched Eleanor Friede Books, a literary agency.