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