Harold Ober (1881-1959) was an American literary agent. Born in 1881 in New Hampshire, he graduated from Harvard with a literature degree in 1905 and two years after that, joined the Paul R. Reynolds Literary Agency as a literary agent. He apparently liked working with authors so much that he gave up his own idea of becoming an author himself. In 1929 he founded Harold Ober Associates, a literary agency that represented Agatha Christie in the United States, along with other renowned authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Philip Wylie, Pearl S. Buck and J. D. Salinger. His partners at the agency were Ivan von Auw and Dorothy Olding. The literary agency which he founded still operates today.