James Wood Davidson (March 9, 1829 – June 27, 1905) was a United States author.

James Wood Davidson was born in Newberry District, South Carolina on March 9, 1829.

He left Columbia in 1871, and lived two years in Washington, D.C., and eleven years in New York City, where he was literary editor of the Evening Post in 1873, and American correspondent of the London Standard from 1873 to 1878.

In 1884, he moved to Figulus in Dade County, Florida, where he continued his literary work, and engaged in fruit culture.

[3] James Wood Davidson died in Chattahoochee on June 27, 1905.