![]() ![]() E Bates most successful works came after World War II, as did his most prolific writing, after the war Bates averaged one novel and one collection of short stories a year. It was during this time that Bates would have his first financial success with Fair Stood the Wind for France, which he followed with several other wartime novels. ![]() Later these stories would be collected into a book titled The Greatest People in the World and Other Stories. ![]() After sending his first novel off to publishers he found rejection, and received eight or nine rejection letters, the novel was eventually published and a stack of novels, short stories and essays followed, although Bates found writing did not pay well.ĭuring World War II Bates was drafted by the RAF, not to fight, his sole requirement was to write short stories to be published in the news chronicle under the pseudonym “Flying Officer X”. His second, and the first to be published, The Two Sisters was inspired by a late night walk that took him to the small village of Farndish where he saw a light burning in a cottage window.Īt this time Bates was working for a small newspaper in Wellingborough, a job that he hated, later he worked at a shoe making warehouse and it was here he found time to write while working. E Bates started writing early in his life, writing and discarding his first novel in his late teens. ![]()
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