데이비스는 매사추세츠주 노샘프턴에서 소설가이자 서평가의 딸로 태어났습니다. 처음에는 피아노를, 그다음에는 첫사랑이었던 바이올린을 공부했습니다. 그녀가 작가가 된 이야기를 들어보면, 이 문제는 단순히 필요에 의한 것이었던 것 같습니다.

Davis was born in in Northampton, Massachusetts, the daughter of a novelist and a book critic. She studied music first piano, then violin which was her first love. To hear her talk about becoming a writer, the matter seems, again, to have been simply out of necessity.