Gary soto
April 12, 1952- Present
Biography
Who is Gary soto? = Gary Anthony soto is an American author and poet.
where was he born = Fresno, California.
married:? = Carolyn Oda
children?= Mariko Heidi Soto
important life information?
He did graduate work in poetry writing at the University of California, Irvine, where he was the first Mexican-American to earn a M.F.A. in 1976. He states that he wanted to become a writer in college after discovering the novelist Gabriel García Márquez and the contemporary poets Edward Field, W. S. Merwin, Charles Simic, James Wright and Pablo Neruda, whom he calls "the master of them all.