Julia Davis Adams

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.

Julia Davis Adams
Born	(1900-07-23)July 23, 1900 Clarksburg, West Virginia, U.S.
Died	January 30, 1993(1993-01-30) (aged 92)
Pen name	F. Draco
Occupation	Writer
Genre	Children's historical novels; mystery fiction (as Draco)
Notable works	Vaino, A Boy of New Finland Mountains are Free

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
• 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 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