Julia Davis Adams Explained

Julia Davis Adams
Pseudonym:	F. Draco
Birth Date:	23 July 1900
Birth Place:	Clarksburg, West Virginia, U.S.
Occupation:	Writer
Genre:	Children's historical novels; mystery fiction (as Draco)
Notableworks:	Vaino, A Boy of New Finland Mountains are Free

Julia Davis Adams (July 23, 1900 – January 30, 1993)^{[1] [2]} 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.^[3]

Selected works

• The Swords of the Vikings: Stories from the Works of Saxo Grammaticus (E. P. Dutton, 1928), retold by Davis
• 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),

External links

• • 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),

Notes and References

1. News: Julia Davis Adams is One of Clarksburg's Most Published and Celebrated Authors. Connect Clarksburg. 2017-10-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20190327091530/http://www.connect-clarksburg.com/connect.cfm?func=view&section=News&item=Julia-Davis-Adams-is-One-of-Clarksburgs-Most-Published-and-Celebrated-Authors-12086. 2019-03-27. dead.
2. News: Julia Davis Adams dead at age 92 . The New York Times . 2 February 1993 . March 24, 2015.
3. "Julia Davis." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center. Web. 31 Mar. 2015.