Julia Davis Adams

{{Short description|American writer best known for popular history and historical novels}}

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| name = Julia Davis Adams

| pseudonym = F. Draco

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|7|23}}

| birth_place = Clarksburg, West Virginia, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1993|1|30|1900|7|23|mf=y}}

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| occupation = Writer

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| genre = Children's historical novels; mystery fiction (as Draco)

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| notableworks = {{plainlist|

• Vaino, A Boy of New Finland
• Mountains are Free

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Julia Davis Adams (July 23, 1900 – January 30, 1993){{Cite news|url=http://www.connect-clarksburg.com/connect.cfm?func=view§ion=News&item=Julia-Davis-Adams-is-One-of-Clarksburgs-Most-Published-and-Celebrated-Authors-12086|title=Julia Davis Adams is One of Clarksburg's Most Published and Celebrated Authors|work=Connect Clarksburg|access-date=2017-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327091530/http://www.connect-clarksburg.com/connect.cfm?func=view§ion=News&item=Julia-Davis-Adams-is-One-of-Clarksburgs-Most-Published-and-Celebrated-Authors-12086|archive-date=2019-03-27|url-status=dead}}{{cite news |title=Julia Davis Adams dead at age 92 |work=The New York Times |date=2 February 1993 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/02/obituaries/julia-davis-adams-92-west-virginia-writer.html |accessdate=March 24, 2015}} 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."Julia Davis." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center. Web. 31 Mar. 2015.