Julia Cooley Altrocchi

Julia Cooley Altrocchi (1893-1972) was an American poet and prose author and poet,

Life
Altrocchi resided in Berkeley, California, after graduating from Vassar College. She was married to Rudolph Altrocchi, Professor of Italian at the University of California, Berkeley. She was an honorary member of the Ina Coolbrith Circle, San Francisco, the Browning Society of San Francisco, and Poets of the Pacific.

Writing
Her best known work is Snow Covered Wagons (1936), a Narrative poem about the Donner Party Expedition. Other works include The Old California Trail (1945), and Spectacular San Franciscans (1949).