John Long writes fiction rooted in the overlooked corners of American history ? events well-documented enough to be true, and small enough to have been forgotten. 1904 began with a single line in an old newspaper archive and grew, over years of research into primary sources and period correspondence, into this novel.

He is drawn to narrators who are honest about the limits of what they can know, and to the quiet, undocumented kindnesses history tends to leave out of the record. 1904 is his first novel.