William Stearns Davis (1877-1930) was the American author of: A Friend of Caesar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic (1900), God Wills It (1902), Belshazzar: A Tale of the Fall of Babylon (1902), Falaise of the Blessed Voice (1904), A Victor of Salamis (1907), Influence of Wealth on Imperial Rome (1910), The Friar of Wittenberg (1912), A Day in Old Athens: A Picture of Athenian Life (1914), Armed Peace: A Non-Technical History of Europe (1919), A Short History of the Near East (1922), Life on a Medieval Barony (1923), The Beauty of the Purple (1924), Gilman of Redford (1927), The Whirlwind (1929), Life in Elizabethan Days (1930) and others.