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Herbert Ernest Bates CBE (16 May 1905 – 29 January 1974) was a British writer, known for his gritty realistic short stories (he wrote more than 25 collections) and novels set in the early to mid 20th century of England mainly.
Born May 16th 1905 in the boot and shoe making town of Rushden in Northamptonshire. His parents, Lizzie and Albert, name him Herbert Ernest, but no one seems to know why and everyone calls him Bert. He is a petite, blonde, blue eyed boy who is adored by his many aunts and grandparents; an affection he will remember all his life.
H.E. Bates (born May 16, 1905, Rushden, Northamptonshire, England—died January 29, 1974, Canterbury, Kent) was an English novelist and short-story writer of high reputation and wide popularity. Bates attended grammar school at Kettering; he qualified for university
H.E. Bates was an English novelist, short story writer and essayist best known for creating the much loved Larkin family in his series of comic novels beginning with The Darling Buds of May.
Herbert Ernest Bates, CBE is widely recognised as one of the finest short story writers of his generation, with more than 20 story collections published in his lifetime.
Jan 1, 2001 · Appearing in 1980, this was a selection of novels and short stories from Bates’s work published posthumously. Herbert Ernest Bates, CBE is widely recognised as one of the finest short story writers of his generation, with more than 20 story collections published in his lifetime.
H.E. Bates has 196 books on Goodreads with 29111 ratings. H.E. Bates’s most popular book is The Darling Buds of May.
H. E. Bates was born in 1905 in Northamptonshire. He worked as a journalist and clerk on a local newspaper before publishing his first book, The Two Sisters, when he was twenty. In the next fifteen years he acquired a distinguished reputation for his stories about English country life.
his is a selection of short works by the English short-story writer and novelist H. E. Bates, who died in 1974. Chronologically, they range from his first published work, “The Flame,” which appeared in 1926, to the title story of his last collection, ” The Song of the Wren” (1972).
H. E. Bates was born in 1905 in the shoe-making town of Rushden, Northamptonshire, and educated at Kettering Grammar School. After leaving school, he worked as a reporter and as a clerk in a leather warehouse.
