Julia Bernelle Smade Babcock (1868-1962) was an American author who wrote over 40 novels, as well as numerous essays and newspaper articles. After being widowed at age 29 with five children to support, she began working as a writer. Her first book, The Daughter of the Republican (1900), sold over 100,000 copies. Babcock was society page editor of the Arkansas Democrat and later owned and edited The Arkansas Sketch Book, the first venture of its kind in the state. She wrote Mammy, a drama read at Chautauqua and on lyceum circuits. Babcock founded the Arkansas Museum of Natural History in Little Rock, and worked as a folklore editor for the Federal Writers" Project. In 1953, she retired to a home on Petit Jean Mountain, where she continued to write, publishing a volume of poetry, The Marble Woman, at age 91 in 1959. She was also the author of: Yesterday and To-Day in Arkansas (1917), The Coming of the King (1921), The Soul of Ann Rutledge: Abraham Lincoln"s Romance (1919) and The Soul of Abraham Lincoln (1923).