biography
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Bates, H(erbert) E(rnest)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1905–74)
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| biography:
| Novelist, playwright, and short-story writer, born in Rushden, Northamptonshire, C England, UK. He began his working life as a solicitor's clerk, provincial journalist, and warehouse clerk. His first play, The Last Bread, and his first novel, The Two Sisters, appeared in 1926. He is one of the greatest exponents of the short-story form. His best-known works are Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944), The Jacaranda Tree (1949), and The Darling Buds of May (1958), which became a popular television series in the UK. |
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