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	Gary Soto of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gary Soto was one of the first Latinos to write for children and young adults.
		Gary says he was new to children's writing, but all Chicano writers are new to this important area of literature, and Gary has certainly led the way.
		Gary Soto, born and raised in Fresno, California, is the author of ten poetry collections for adults, most notably New and Selected Poems, a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the National Book Award.
	www.ou.edu /worldlit/NSK/Soto.htm (626 words)

	Gary Soto; A Teacher Resource File
		It would seem that Gary Soto is an author true to his Hispanic heritage and culture.
		Gary Soto reminds me of Mark Twain who also used his own boyhood experiences on which to base his many books and characters.
		Rather Soto and other Hispanic authors have highlighted the culture of a colorful, family oriented people who know what it means to find work to help the family survive.
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/soto.htm (588 words)

	Gary Soto (b. 1952)
		It is also useful to consider Soto among other contemporary poets whose sensibilities were shaped by the post-1960s struggles to improve the circumstances of minority groups and the poor.
		Although Soto is a Chicano poet in that his Mexican-American heritage is a key aspect of his literary sensibility, he nevertheless aims for a wider audience.
		Soto's work is fruitfully compared to other autobiographical poets (Lowell, Berryman, Plath) and to working-class poets such as Wright and Levine.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/soto.html (726 words)

	Gary Soto Biography - Life in the barrio, Poet of the people
		Gary Soto was born on April 12, 1952, the second child of Manuel and Angie Soto.
		Gary Soto is the Young People Ambassador for the United Farm Workers of America (UFWA), which means that during his many visits to libraries and schools, he introduces kids to the legacy of the United Farm Workers organization.
		Soto's poetry for children is much lighter in tone than his adult works; as he does in his autobiographical prose, he celebrates small moments from his childhood that can be understood by any young person growing up anywhere.
	www.notablebiographies.com /news/Sh-Z/Soto-Gary.html (2797 words)

	BookPage Interview May 1998: Gary Soto
		Soto, a Chicano ("That's what I am"), is quick to say that he feels a certain obligation to that ethnic group, but he's no cheerleader.
		Now 45, Soto's stream of creativity is still flourishing as he continues to write novels, plays, essays, and poetry for adults and young readers.
		Soto's picture books are much happier than his middle-grade titles, but touches of humor lighten those as well.
	www.bookpage.com /9805bp/gary_soto.html (916 words)

	BiographySoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Soto was even the youngest American poet to have himself and his works included in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry.
		When Soto was just five years of age, his father was killed in a factory accident, thus leaving his widowed wife with three children: Gary, his older brother, Rick, and his younger sister, Debra.
		Gary Soto now resides in a secluded section in Northern California, and he has been senior lecturer at UC, Berkley since 1992.
	project1.caryacademy.org /echoes/poet_Gary_Soto/DefaultSoto.htm (631 words)

	Gary Soto - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Born in Fresno, California to Mexican American parents, Gary Soto learned the hard work ethic through his share of chores, including mowing lawns, picking grapes, painting house numbers on street curbs, and washing cars.
		Gary Soto is an acclaimed poet, essayist, and fiction writer.
		Gary Soto is also one of the youngest poets to appear in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000039999,00.html (354 words)

	Author Study - Gary Soto
		Soto's writing describes a life experience that is often underrepresented children's books: Mexican American characters in economically disadvantaged environments.
		Soto's parents and grandparents worked as laborers in the vineyards and orange groves of California, and many of his poems describe the hard, sometimes grueling nature of this kind of life (Silvey 1995).
		Therefore, it is doubly important for teachers to recognize the importance of the work of authors such as Soto, and to use their materials in classrooms and libraries.
	home.netcom.com /~kgotts/juvenileliterature/id1.html (2044 words)

	Amazon.com: Gary Soto: New and Selected Poems: Books: Gary Soto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The earliest pieces, exploring Soto's rite of passage out of the California fields and orchards in which he labored, are still his best work, conveying a connection to land and wind and a desperateness that softens as he finds his way to marriage and a steady paycheck.
		In Soto's simple, short lines, these poems are as lean and avid as their protagonist, and they gather an impressive force with their quick rhythms and recurrent images: a hand encrusted with dirt, or an orange?its sudden bolt of color and its juice, the poet's manna.
		With the hardships experienced as a youth and a troubled young adulthood, it seems fitting that Soto would describe his life as "a test," and sensible that it was made endurable through the belief that despite hardship, God was still there "with his pencil," and that He hasn't been forgotten.
	www.amazon.com /Gary-Soto-New-Selected-Poems/dp/0811807584 (1966 words)

	Interview with Gary Soto
		Gary Soto born and raised in Fresno, California, is the author of ten poetry collections for adults, most notably New and Selected Poems, a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Time Award and the National Book Award.
		Soto’s first book for young readers, Baseball in April and Other Stories, won the California Library Association's Beatty Award and was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
		Soto also serves as the Young Person’s Ambassador for both the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) and California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA).
	www.harcourtbooks.com /authorinterviews/bookinterview_Soto.asp (1237 words)

	Gary Soto Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		The son of American-born parents of Mexican background, Gary Soto was born on 12 April 1952 in Fresno, California.
		Soto's grandparents, both born in Mexico, made their living in the United States from field and factory work.
		Soto grew up in the environs of the San Joaquin Valley, a social experience he described in an unpublished 27 May 1988 interview: "We grew up very Californians, like pochos....
	www.bookrags.com /biography/gary-soto-dlb (210 words)

	ClassZone.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gary Soto writes about the lives of Mexican Americans, about nature, and about personal dreams.
		As a result of that "fluke," Soto has been writing poetry, novels, and short stories for young readers and adults ever since college.
		Soto lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley, California, where he occasionally teaches English and Chicano studies at the University of California.
	www.classzone.com /novelguides/authors/soto.cfm (221 words)

	Gary Soto Biography \| Authors and Artist for Young Adults
		Gary Soto is at heart a poet; everything he writes is overflowing with the vivid details of everyday life.
		Soto takes joy in the little things--remembered smells, voices in the distance, the pull of muscle when working.
		Soto, in his twenty books of poetry and prose for adults, and his nearly thirty books for young readers, has demonstrated a "seemingly total recall of his youth," as Suzanne Curley remarked in the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/gary-soto-aya (214 words)

	Gary Soto
		Below, you will find links to information about Gary Soto and his body of work, including biographical information, lesson plans, reviews, and a look at his cultur.
		Soto's writing style is somewhat stream of consciousness, beginning with the situation of a particular memory, then letting the story flow.
		Later in the book, with the story "The Small Faces", Soto writes of volunteering as a teenager at the elementary school in his family's old neighborhood, four miles away from where he lived at the time.
	www.ualr.edu /teenread/id23.htm (737 words)

	Houghton Mifflin Reading: Meet Gary Soto
		Unlike many authors, Gary Soto never thought about becoming a writer when he was a kid.
		But when he was in college, he came across a book of poetry, liked it, and started writing his own poems.
		But not everything that happens in his books happened to him — he likes to mix up fact and fiction in his stories.
	www.eduplace.com /kids/hmr05/mtai/soto.html (219 words)

	Gary Soto : An Annotated Bibliography
		Internet School Library Media Center Gary Soto bibliography page.
		Collection of short prose pieces, describing Soto's growing up in the barrio during the 1950s and 1960s; Little League; parochial school life.
		Poems by Gary Soto; illustrated by Regan Dunnick.
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/sotobib.htm (903 words)

	Gary Soto Author Background
		Gary Soto's story, Barbie, is about a girl who waits several years to receive a Barbie for Christmas.
		Write your biography of Gary Soto using Microsoft Word on the computer where you are.
		Since you have completed this project, you have researched and written a biography of Gary Soto.
	webinstituteforteachers.org /~btwilson/gsotoquest_student_page.html (552 words)

	Gary Soto author study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gary Soto is an author who wrote many stories about his childhood experiences.
		Gary Soto went to California State University and became a famous writer.
		In this activity you will learn more about the life and work of Gary Soto by completing the steps below.
	www.suhsd.k12.ca.us /mvm/netlinks/2soto/2soto9.html (123 words)

	Gary Soto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gary Soto, born on April 12th, has written many books of poetry and fiction which give readers an insight into Mexican-American life, sharing scenes from his childhood in the San Joaquin Valley of California where his family worked in fields and factories.
		In 1994, he won the Pura Belpre Award from the ALA for his book, Baseball in April and Other Stories (Harcourt).
		For the Los Angeles Opera, he wrote the libretto to the opera “Nerdlandia.” He is currently the Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California at Riverside.
	www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org /brthpage/04apr/4-12soto.html (154 words)

	Gary Soto — Infoplease.com
		Gary Soto: Worlds Apart: Traveling with Fernie and Me.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
		Soto, Gary Fearless Fernie: Hanging Out with Fernie and Me.
		Gary Soto Fearless Fernie: Hanging Out with Fernie and Me.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0884322.html (244 words)

	Poetry: Gary Soto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Academy of American Poets - Poetry Exhibits: Gary Soto
		This site contains a brief biography of Soto, a selected bibliography, the text of one of his poems, and a list of links.
		One critic points out that Soto has transcended the social commentary of his early work and shifted to "a more personal, less politically motivated poetry." Another argues that "Gary Soto has become not an important Chicano poet but an important American poet."
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/soto.htm (256 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Gary Soto
		The Academy of American Poets - Gary Soto
		Gary Soto was born in Fresno, California, in 1952.
		He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including New and Selected Poems (Chronicle Books, 1995), which was a National Book Award finalist; Canto Familiar/Familiar Song (1994); Neighborhood Odes (1992); Home Course in Religion (1991); Who Will Know Us?
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/230 (147 words)

	PAL: Gary Soto (1952- )
		Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century - Gary Soto (1952-)
		Manson, Michael T. "Poetry and Masculinity on the Anglo/Chicano Border: Gary Soto, Robert Frost, and Robert Hass." The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era.
		Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century, 1945 to the Present - Gary Soto (1952-)." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap10/soto.html (199 words)

	Gary Soto @Web English Teacher
		This lesson asks younger students to concept map "neighborhood" and "celebration."
		An essay on "classroom issues and strategies" for working with Soto.
		Using an online map of Fresno, students choose a landmark to use as the setting for a vinnette, a short story episode of about one page, modeled after Soto's style.
	www.webenglishteacher.com /soto.html (192 words)

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		Books By Gary Soto Owned By the Ronald Williams Library
		Poets In Person (sound recording): Gary Soto With Joseph Parisi (No. 7).
		Gary Soto: Overview by Critic Pamela L. Shelton
	www.neiu.edu /~neiulib/about/newsevents/uevents/soto.html (223 words)

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