The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Penguin Classics)
JOHN STEINBECK(1902–1968) was born in Salinas, California. He worked as a laborer and a  journalist, and in 1935, when he publishedTortilla Flat, he achieved popular success and financial  security. Steinbeck wrote more than twenty-five novels and won the Nobel Prize in 1962.Robert DeMottis the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor at Ohio University and  the author ofSteinbeck’s Typewriter, an award-winning book of critical essays.Gary Scharnhorstis professor of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the editor of  books by Bret Harte and John De Forest for Penguin Classics.