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Julia Davis Adams

American writer best known for popular history and historical novels

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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.

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)

No Other White Men (Dutton, 1937)

The Shenandoah (Rivers of America, 1945); reprint 2011 West Virginia University Press ISBN 9781933202969

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 51-10854

Cruise with Death (Rinehart, 1952), LCCN 52-7157

Works by or about Julia Davis Adams at Wikisource

Julia Davis at the Library of Congress, with 21 library catalog records

F. Draco at LC Authorities, with 2 records

"Julia Davis: A Literary Biography" (archived 2014-12-16) – with bibliography; this may be the introduction to Harvest: Collected Works (1992), OCLC 42253178

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