H. E. Bates
Herbert Ernest Bates who wrote as H. E. Bates (May 16 1905 - January 29 1974) was an English writer and author. He was born in Rushden, Northamptonshire and educated at Kettering Grammar School. After leaving school he worked as a reporter and a warehouse clerk. Many of his stories depict life in the rural Midlands of England. During World War II he was commissioned as a writer by the RAF and wrote a number of novels under the pseudonym of "Flying Officer X". His best war novel, however, was written under his own name, Fair Stood the Wind for France. A prolific and successful author in his own lifetime, his greatest success was however posthumous, with the television adaptations of his stories The Darling Buds of May and its sequels, and My Uncle Silas. In 1973 H. E. Bates was awarded the CBE.
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