Julia Cunningham

American writer

Julia Woolfolk Cunningham (October 4, 1916 – February 27, 2008) was an American author of children's literature.^[1]

She is best remembered for her novel Dorp Dead which won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and for The Treasure Is The Rose which was a finalist for the National Book Award.^[1]

She was sister to John W. Cunningham, a Western author who created the story of the influential film High Noon.^[1] Her first cousin was the neuroscientist and physician John C. Lilly.^{[citation needed]}