The Abandoned Room

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on October 18, 1879, Wadsworth Camp was born. He was a writer best known for his works Love Without Question (1939), The House of Fear (1939), and The Last Warning (1928). (1920). Madeleine Barnett, a former spouse, was his first wife. On October 30, 1936, he passed away in Jacksonville, Florida. He was a huge, handsome man wearing a white linen suit, according to a relative, who also enjoyed drinking whisky and smoking cigarettes on the porch. He was exposed to mustard gas while working as a foreign journalist, which damaged his lungs. He succumbed to pneumonia at the age of 57 due to weak lungs. He was Madeleine L'Engle's father, a well-known author.