AKA Herbert Ernest Bates

Born: 16-May-1905
Birthplace: Rushden, Northamptonshire, England
Died: 29-Jan-1974
Location of death: Canterbury, Kent, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Kent County Crematorium, Charing, Kent, England

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Jacaranda Tree

Military service: Royal Air Force (Flight Lt.)

Wife: Marjorie Helen Cox (m. 1931, four children)

    High School: Kettering Grammar School, Kettering, Northamptonshire

    Commander of the British Empire 1973

Author of books:
The Poacher (1935, novel)
A House of Women (1936, novel)
My Uncle Silas (1940, novel)
The Beauty of the Dead and Other Stories (1941, short stories)
The Greatest People in the World (1942)
How Sleep the Brave (1943)
Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944, novel)
The Purple Plain (1946, novel)
The Jacaranda Tree (1948, novel)
The Nature of Love (1954, novel)
A Moment in Time (1964, novel)
The Triple Echo (1970, novel)
The Darling Buds of May (1958, novel)
Colonel Julian (1955, novel)
The Vanished World (1969, memoir)
The Blossoming World (1971, memoir)

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