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About Douglas Fairbairn

Douglas Behl Fairbairn was an American author.

His novels include A Man's World (1956), A Squirrel of One's Own (1971), Shoot (1973), A Squirrel Forever (1975), Street 8 (1977) and his memoir, Down and Out in Cambridge (1982).

His screen credits include the television episode "A Man's World" (based on his novel of the same title) for Studio One in Hollywood, the episode "The Voice of Charlie Pont" on Alcoa Premiere (1962), and a full-length feature film from his novel Shoot (1976; adapted by Richard Berg).

He attended but did not graduate from Harvard College, where he was editor of the Harvard Lampoon. He returned to the Miami area where he would live out the rest of his life.