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 ISBN9781933202969
  • 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), LCCN
  • Cruise with Death (Rinehart, 1952), LCCN

External links

  • Works by or aboutJulia Davis AdamsatWikisource
  • at theLibrary of Congress, with 21library catalog records
  • at LC Authorities, with 2 records
  • (archived 2014-12-16) – with bibliography; this may be the introduction to Harvest: Collected Works (1992), OCLC