Ernest Sutherland Bates

Who was Ernest Sutherland Bates?

Ernest Sutherland Bates 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.

After Oregon he became literary editor of the Dictionary of American Biography. He was also associate editor of Modern Monthly and a contributor to the Saturday Review of Literature.

Bates was the co-author, with John V. Dittemore, a former director of the Christian Science church, of Mary Baker Eddy: The Truth and the Tradition, which traces the early history of Christian Science and the life of its founder, Mary Baker Eddy. According to historian Ralph Henry Gabriel, writing in 1933, the book "comes very close to being a definitive history of a strangely paradoxical woman."