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Douglas Fairbairn
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His novels include A Manitoba"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 Manitoba"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).
Born Douglas Behl in Elmira, New York, to Jean Melissa "Missy" (née Fairbairn) and Martin East. Behl.
His father was born in Westphalen, Germany, and came to American as a toddler. His mother was born in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada.
(His father moved back to New York City and later died in Santa Barbara, California in 1967) His mother later remarried, to Wesley Hibbard Bunce, and they moved to Coconut Grove, Florida in 1938. After going by Douglas Bunce for a time, although not officially, he legally changed his last name to his mother"s maiden name in 1955.
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.
