Julia Davis Adams

Julia Davis Adams (July 23, 1900 – January 30, 1993) was an American writer best known for her young adult books, historical and biographical novels and dramas.

Adams was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, to lawyer and statesman John W. Davis and Julia Leavell McDonald Davis. She attended Wellesley College, and graduated from Barnard College in 1922. She was also an active social worker and a journalist. She relocated to Charles Town, West Virginia, in 1986.

Selected works

The Swords of the Vikings: Stories from the Works of Saxo Grammaticus (E. P. Dutton, 1928), retold by Davis Vaino, A Boy of New Finland (1929) Mountains Are Free (1930) No Other White Men (Dutton, 1937) The Shenandoah (Rivers of America, 1945); reprint 2011 West Virginia University Press Cloud On The Land, (Rinehart & Company, Inc. 1951) A Valley and a Song: The Story of the Shenandoah River (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963) Harvest: Collected Works of Julia Davis (Jefferson County Oral and Visual History Association, 1992)

Davis wrote two Murray Hill mystery novels, published as by F. Draco: Devil's Church (Rinehart, 1951), Cruise with Death (Rinehart, 1952),