The Four Lost Men: The Previously Unpublished Long Version, Including the Original Short Story

This is the first publication of the long version of Thomas Wolfe's story of familial and national reflection set during the First World War. It offers a portrait of the author's dying father, as well as a meditation on American history and ambitions on the verge of US entry into a broadening global conflict.

Arlyn Bruccoli is an independent scholar and a Wolfe specialist.

Matthew J. Bruccoli is the Emily Brown Jefferies Professor Emeritus of English at the University of South Carolina and the leading authority on the House of Scribner and its authors. He is the editorial director of the Dictionary of Literary Biography and the author or editor of one hundred books, including The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor.