Yorkshire-born literary agent and bon viveur whose life and bank balance changed dramatically when he ‘discovered’ JK Rowling
Tuesday January 12 2021, 12.01am, The Times
Little saw the potential in JK Rowling’s first book and made a publishing deal that was described as a masterstroke
Little saw the potential in JK Rowling’s first book and made a publishing deal that was described as a masterstroke
Christopher Little was running a small literary agency when in 1996 he received three chapters of a manuscript from a penniless 30-year-old author called Joanne Rowling. She had chosen his name from a list of literary agents in an Edinburgh library, thinking that he sounded like a character from a children’s story.