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Herbert Ernest Bates CBE (16 May 1905 – 29 January 1974) was an English 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.
May 12, 2024 · 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.
Family life - At home with H.E. Bates. Watch some wonderful footage from home movies of H.E. and his family at home in his beautiful garden in Kent in the early 1960s.
H.E. Bates has 196 books on Goodreads with 28560 ratings. H.E. Bates’s most popular book is The Darling Buds of May.
THE POWER OF WOMEN. From the very beginning his empathy towards women was a powerful influence on his work. H.E. was only 20 when he wrote his first novel, The Two Sisters, an intimate portrait of two young sisters oppressed by their father following the death of their mother.
