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Wadsworth Camp
1879–1936
A journalist, foreign correspondent, and novelist, he wrote brisk mysteries and adventure tales in the early twentieth century, with several stories later adapted for film. His life moved between newspaper work, war reporting, and popular fiction, giving his books an energetic, worldly feel.
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, Wadsworth Camp was the pen name of Charles Wadsworth Camp. He studied at Princeton and went on to work as a reporter, editor, and foreign correspondent before building a career as a novelist and short-story writer.
Camp is best remembered for mystery and adventure fiction, including The Abandoned Room and The Gray Mask. Contemporary library and reference sources also note that some of his stories and novels were adapted into films, a sign of how well his suspenseful plots connected with early mass audiences.
He died in 1936. Camp is also remembered today as the father of writer Madeleine L'Engle, but his own work stands on its own as a lively example of popular American fiction from the 1910s and 1920s.