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 Bates, Herbert Ernest (1905 - 1974)
Born on May 16th, 1905 in Rushden, Northamptonshire, England, HE Bates was a British novelist and short-story writer of high reputation and wide popularity. He first wrote about the countryside and agricultural labour with publications such as The Poacher; A House of Women; My Uncle Silas, and The Beauty of the Dead and Other Stories.
He was later commissioned as a writer for the Royal Air Force, and gained great popularity with The Greatest People in the World and How Sleep the Brave, both collections of stories that dealt with the feel of flying in wartime.
During the period 1944-1948 three major novels were published under his own name: Fair Stood the Wind for France, about a British bomber crew forced down in occupied France, and two set in Burma (now Myanmar) during the Japanese invasion, The Purple Plain and The Jacaranda Tree, earning Bates a new reputation as a powerful novelist.
After the war he published The Triple Echo and The Darling Buds of May, about a lovable farm family, the Larkins, which was later made into a TV series starring the young actress Catherine Zeta Jones. [edit]
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