- Huffaker's wife, Norma Lee Fink, was an attorney and the first female prosecutor in Texas. Later, as a private practitioner, her clients, aside from her husband, included Sam Peckinpah, Franco Nero, Henry Farrell, Christopher Lee, Inger Stevens, Norman Baer, Ed Linn, and Slim Pickens.
- Wrote a memoir in his 50s titled "One Time I Saw Morning Come Home" in which he tries to come to grips with the fact that his parents were just teenagers when they had him.
- Daughter is script supervisor Samantha C. Kirkeby, who heads the Clair Huffaker Company.
- Started his own film production company in 1969.
- Attended Princeton and Columbia universities and the Sorbonne in Paris. He worked in Chicago as an assistant editor for Time magazine before turning to writing western fiction.
- Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
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