Douglas Fields Bailey
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Brief Biography
Douglas Fields Bailey was born in Dothan, Alabama. He was mentored by creative writing professor Hudson Strode at the University of Alabama. Bailey also attended Birmingham-Southern College and the University of Missouri before leaving academia to pursue a journalism career in Marianna, Florida, and Dothan. In 1945, Bailey began working in insurance during the day and writing a novel at night. Strode sent a manuscript of Bailey’s novel, Devil Make a Third, to a publisher in New York, and it was published in 1948. Bailey then pursued a career in business and didn’t publish anything else. He died in Dothan in 1987.
Publications
Devil Make a Third. New York; Dutton, 1948.
Themes
Douglas Fields Bailey wrote a coming-of-age novel called Devil Make a Third. It is set in Dothan, Alabama and is partially based on Bailey's family.
Publisher
Alabama Authors of the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, http://AlabamaAuthors.org
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Citation
Bailey, Douglas Fields, “Douglas Fields Bailey,” Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, accessed September 19, 2024, https://alabamaauthors.org/items/show/533.