author
Wadsworth Camp
1879–1936
A journalist-turned-novelist with a taste for suspense, he wrote mysteries and thrillers that also found their way to the screen. His work carries the brisk pace of newsroom storytelling and the shadowy tension of early 20th-century popular fiction.
3 Audiobooks
The Guarded Heights
by Wadsworth Camp
The Abandoned Room
by Wadsworth Camp
The Gray Mask
by Wadsworth Camp
About the author
Born in Philadelphia in 1879, Charles Wadsworth Camp wrote under the name Wadsworth Camp. He studied at Princeton and worked in journalism before becoming known for mystery and adventure fiction.
Camp published novels including The Abandoned Room and The Gray Mask, and some of his stories were later adapted for film. Contemporary library and film records also identify him as a writer and journalist with experience as a foreign correspondent.
He died in 1936. He is also remembered as the father of author Madeleine L'Engle, though his own reputation rests on his fast-moving popular fiction and his career in early 20th-century journalism.