Julia Davis Adams
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Julia Davis Adams | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 23, 1900 |
| Died | January 30, 1993 (aged 92) |
| Pen name | F. Draco |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Children's historical novels; mystery fiction (as Draco) |
| Notable works | |
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] She relocated to Charles Town, West Virginia, in 1986.[4]
Selected works
[edit | edit source]- 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 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 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:
References
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- ^ "Julia Davis." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center. Web. 31 Mar. 2015.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20141216224902/http://www.jeffersoncountyhlc.org/juliadavis/biography.html "Julia Davis: A Literary Biography"] (archived 2014-12-16) – with bibliography; this may be the introduction to Harvest: Collected Works (1992), OCLC 42253178
External links
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Works by or about Julia Davis Adams at Wikisource- Julia Davis at 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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Categories:
- 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
- 20th-century American novelists
- American social workers
- Writers from Charles Town, West Virginia