Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat
Book cover design depicting several male workers, a woman in a dress, and several dogs of different breeds on a neighborhood street
First edition
AuthorJohn Steinbeck
Cover artistRuth Stiles Gannett
LanguageEnglish
PublisherCovici-Friede
Publication date
1935
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
OCLC576516
813.52
LC ClassPS3537.T3234

Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early John Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California. The novel was the author's first clear critical and commercial success.

The book portrays a group of 'paisanos'—literally, countrymen—a small band of errant friends enjoying life and wine in the days after the end of World War I.

Tortilla Flat was made into a film in 1942. Steinbeck later returned to some of the panhandling locals of Monterey (though not the Mexican paisanos of the Flat) in his novel Cannery Row (1945).