Who Is “The Leader of the People”?: Helping Students Examine Fiction

The title of this article suggests its double purpose. Steinbeck’s “The Leader of the People” is found fairly commonly in school anthologies. Mr. Grommon discusses it as a kind of case study in directing students’ reading of the short story. Mr. Grommon, an asssociate director of the NCTE’s Commission on the English Curriculm, is an associate professor of English and education at Stanford University.