Grover Wolfe, Thomas's brother, was Ben Wolfe's twin. Grover died tragically at the age of twelve years from typhoid fever. The Short Story, The Lost Boy is Thomas Wolfe's poignant tale of remembrance for this lost brother. It was published in the most complete form as, The Lost Boy: A Novella by Thomas Wolfe, Edited by James W. Clark, Jr., published by the University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

"...a gentle peering face, a soft caressing voice, unlike any of the others in kind and quality, a tender olive skin, black hair, sloe-black eyes, exquisite, rather sad, kindliness...
This was Grover--the gentlest and saddest of the boys."