James Brand Pinker (1863 – February 8, 1922) was a literary agent who represented James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, Stephen Crane, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence and many of the other leading British and American writers of the age. He is considered to be one of the first literary agents in the modern sense and to have placed relations between authors and publishers on a more professional and fair basis.
Joseph Conrad engaged Pinker as his agent in August 1899.
