Biography;

Journalist; novelist. Born– June 23, 1912, Dothan.   Parents; Whack Hill and Willie Baker Bailey.  Married–Louie Liddell Herzberg.  Children–two. Education–attended the University of Alabama and the University of Missouri.  Worked for newspapers in Dothan and in Marianna, Florida.  Worked for an insurance business.  Student of Hudson Strode at the University of Alabama; worked with Strode in the creation of his novel. Published under the pen name Douglas Fields Bailey.  Died November 2, 1987.

Source;

Alan T. Belsches, “Introduction” to Devil Make a Third.  Library of Alabama Classics Edition. Tuscaloosa:  University of Alabama Press, 1989.

Publication;

Devil Make a Third.  New York:Dutton, 1948; reprinted Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989.