Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaýs greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. <P>Of this initial group of six titles, <I>The Grapes of Wrath</I>is in a new edition with a completely revised introduction and, for the first time, detailed notes by leading Steinbeck scholar more >>

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaýs greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. <P>Of this initial group of six titles, <I>The Grapes of Wrath</I>is in a new edition with a completely revised introduction and, for the first time, detailed notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott. <P>Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersýand to the many who revisit them again and again.<B>JOHN STEINBECK</B>(1902ý1968) was born in Salinas, California. He worked as a laborer and a journalist, and in 1935, when he published <I>Tortilla Flat</I>, he achieved popular success and financial security. Steinbeck wrote more than twenty-five novels and won the Nobel Prize in 1962. <br><B>Robert DeMott</B>is the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor at Ohio University and the author of <I>Steinbeckýs Typewriter</I>, an award-winning book of critical essays.<BR><B>Gary Scharnhorst</B>is 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. << less