Wadsworth Camp was an American journalist and popular fiction writer active in the early twentieth century, contributing mystery and adventure stories to magazines and producing novels with an interest in social mobility and the hidden forces that shape American life. The Guarded Heights explores class aspiration and social barriers set against the backdrop of elite American society.
A readable example of early American popular fiction dealing with themes of ambition and inequality, The Guarded Heights is now freely available as a public-domain EPUB at Better Gutenberg.