H.E. Bates
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About the Author
H. E. Bates was born in Northamptonshire in 1905. He published his first novel, The Two Sisters, when he was twenty. His most popular creation was the effervescent Larkin family, about whom he wrote five novels, including The Darling Buds of May. In 1973 he was awarded the CBE. He died in 1974.
