Born: 31 October 1880, United States
Died: 10 August 1961
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Julia Mood
Julia Peterkin was an American author who won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature for her novel Scarlet Sister Mary. She wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the African-American Gullah people of the Lowcountry. She was one of the few white authors of her time to write about the African-American experience.