In Margrave Of The Marshes, Peel mentioned on 30 August 1960, while living in Dallas at the time, he had just applied for an extension to his six-month visa, which was granted, and consequently mentioned seeing a Peter Sellers film called Two-Way Stretch on that day, which was his 21st birthday: "I spent my twenty-first birthday watching Peter Sellers in 'Two-Way Stretch' on my own in a cinema attached to the Southern Methodist University (SMU)." (Margrave Of The Marshes, Bantam Press, 2005, p. 184.)