 Christopher Little, who runs the agency, also managed Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling from 1996 until 2011 and has been credited with single-handedly managing Rowling's career and turning the "Harry Potter" franchise into a multi-million pound industry.He has been described as "the luckiest agent ever" who was half of "the most commercially successful relationship in literary history".Little's father was a coroner and First World War fighter pilot.