Camp, Charles Wadsworth

Charles Wadsworth Camp was a journalist and writer. His novels and stories were made into seven movies. Born in Pennsylvania, he settled in Jacksonville, Florida. A relative described him: "He was a big, handsome man in a white linen suit smoking cigarettes on the porch and drinking whiskey." While working as a foreign correspondent his lungs were damaged by mustard gas. With weakened lungs, he died of pneumonia at the age of 57. He was the father of noted writer Madeleine L'Engle.