Julia Davis Adams (July 23, 1900 – January 30, 1993) was an American writer best known for her

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s, historical and biographical novels and dramas. Adams was born in

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and Julia Leavell McDonald Davis. She attended

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, and graduated from

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in 1922. She was also an active social worker and a journalist."Julia Davis." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center. Web. 31 Mar. 2015.

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),

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(archived 2014-12-16) – with bibliography; this may be the introduction to ''Harvest: Collected Works'' (1992), {{DEFAULTSORT:Adams, Julia 1900 births 1993 deaths American historical novelists American children's writers Newbery Honor winners Writers from Clarksburg, West Virginia Barnard College alumni Wellesley College alumni Novelists from West Virginia Place of death missing 20th-century American novelists American social workers