Ernest Sutherland Bates (14 October 1879 – 4 December 1939) was an American academic and writer.
[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] 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 (1932), which traces the early history of Christian Science and the life of its founder, Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910).
[3] The book has been praised for its use of original sources, such as manuscript collections of fifteen hundred Eddy letters and hundreds of letters from her students.