Mrs. Fairbank was born in Burke County, Georgia in 1900. Eula Mae was her real name, but her friends began calling her Prissy or Priscilla and it remained for the rest of her life. She married Luke Harvey Fairbank in Savannah, Georgia in 1935. She graduated from the State Normal School of the University of Georgia and continued with graduate studies at the William and Mary School of Social Work in Richmond and at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Mrs. Fairbank taught school for 25 years in the Richmond Public School System. In 1940 Mrs. Fairbank wrote A Child's Workbook and in 1950 she published A Book of Verse. Ten years later she published a genealogical study of her family. She is a member of The Woman's Club, The Confederate Memorial Literary Society, The Poetry Society of Virginia, and she was a member of the James Branch Cabell Associates.