Douglass Bailey

Douglass Bailey (AKA Doug Bailey) grew up in Woodstown, NJ. A graduate of Washington College, he did graduate work in political philosophy at West Virginia University. After serving in the U.S. Air Force, he launched a career in television production at WMAL TV in Washington, D.C.

Most of his career was spent as a producer, director and writer for Public TV. Throughout his career he produced and directed of hundreds of hours of network program, including the CPB Award winning drama "The Coming Asunder of Jimmy Bright" and documentaries including the the winner of the Eagle Award for "5 days in Moorefield."

Bailey collaborated with Carl Sagan in the creation of "Cosmos," and after moving to Los Angeles created the PBS children's reading series, "Storytime." While in L.A. he turned his attention to script writing, and wrote for the top rated sit-com "One Day at a Time," and several other shows including the daytime series "Search For Tomorrow."

But his true love has always been novels. In 1980 he wrote his first novel "Fortune," which was published by Ace Books under the name Doug Bailey. The book is a work of fiction based on the true story of the locating the sunken treasure Mel Fisher salvaged from a lost Spanish galleon off the coast of Key West.

His second book, "Shimabara," was the result of his fascination with Japanese history. The historical action adventure story focuses on the events that led up to the famous battle pitting Japanese Christians against the forces of the feudal shogun -- a battle that set the course of Japan's isolation from the west for centuries.

In 2015 Bailey rewrote both novels, Fortune and Shimabara. The extensively revised versions are available in both paperback and Kindle on Amazon.com

Bailey lives with his wife Michiko and three rescue dogs in Santa Barbara, CA, and collects first editions of his favorite books.