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Gary Soto

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American poet and writer

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Gary Soto
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#647
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#1568
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Writing
#267
World Rank
#441
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According to Wikipedia, Gary Anthony Soto is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist. Life and career Soto was born to Mexican-American parents Manuel and Angie Soto . In his youth, he worked in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley. Soto's father died in 1957, when he was five years old. As his family had to struggle to find work, he had little time or encouragement in his studies. Soto notes that in spite of his early academic record, while at high school he found an interest in poetry through writers such as Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Jules Verne, Robert Frost and Thornton Wilder.

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