Wadsworth Camp

Wadsworth Camp, born Charles Wadsworth Camp in Philadelphia in 1879, was an American writer whose work moved between mystery fiction, journalism, and criticism. Reliable sources linked to his family and film adaptations describe him as a writer, critic, and foreign correspondent, and later readers have especially remembered him for his compact, suspenseful crime novels.

Several of his stories found a second life in film. The Last Warning was adapted into a 1928 Universal picture, and House of Fear later resurfaced on screen as The House of Fear in 1939. His daughter was the celebrated author Madeleine L’Engle, who wrote that his health was damaged by mustard gas during World War I and noted his death in October 1936.

Camp died in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1936. Although biographical details about him are relatively scarce today, his reputation has endured through his mystery novels, their screen adaptations, and his place in a family of writers.