Ernest Sutherland Bates (14 October 1879 – 4 December 1939) was an American academic and writer. He taught English and philosophy at
Oberlin College from 1903 to 1905, the
University of Arizona until 1915, and the
University of Oregon from then until 1925.[1]
Early life and education
Bates was born in Gambier, Ohio, to Cyrus Sutherland and his wife, Lavern Bates. He obtained his A.B. and master's from the
University of Michigan, and his PhD in 1908 from
Columbia University.[1]
Biography
Bates taught English and philosophy at Oberlin College from 1903 to 1905, the University of Arizona until 1915, and the University of Oregon from then until 1925.[1] After Oregon he became literary editor of the Dictionary of American Biography.[2] He was also associate editor of Modern Monthly and a contributor to the Saturday Review of Literature.[1]
According to historian
Ralph Henry Gabriel, writing in 1933, the book "comes very close to being a definitive history of a strangely paradoxical woman."[5] Historian
Sydney E. Ahlstrom has described it as a "solidly documented account".[6]
Personal life
Bates was married to lawyer
Rosalind Goodrich Bates in 1914; they had two sons before they divorced in 1919. He died in 1939, aged 60 years.
Bibliography
American Faith: Its Religious, Political, and Economic Foundations (1940)
^James D. Hart, "Bates, Ernest Sutherland," The Oxford Companion to American Literature, Oxford University Press, 1995, pp.
52–53.
^Christie, F. A. (1933). Reviewed Work: Mary Baker Eddy: The Truth and the Tradition by Ernest Sutherland Bates, John V. Dittemore. The American Historical Review 38 (4): 781-783.
^Shryock, Richard H. (1933). Reviewed Work: Mary Baker Eddy: The Truth and the Tradition by Ernest Sutherland Bates, John V. Dittemore. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 20 (1): 134-136.