Julian R. Meade, a Danville native who came from a well-to-do family, is remembered as the author of books that memorably detail the lives and characteristics of Virginians of the 1920s and 1930s. His interests were broad: by the time he died at the age of thirty-one, he had already enjoyed an active career publishing in national magazines, chronicled Virginia in fiction and nonfiction, published several children’s books, and dabbled in illustration. Meade was known as something of a humorist and led an active social life, corresponding with many other authors of his day.
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