1. Gary Soto Valeria Medina

2. Cuando y Donde Nació Gary Soto, born April 12, 1952, was raised in Fresno, California.

3. Como era su vida de niño He grew up in one of the many barrios (poor Mexican American neighborhoods) of Fresno, California. When Soto was just five years old, his father was killed in an accident while working at Sunmaid Soto was not encouraged to read at home, he was exploring the world of books on his own at the school library. Some of his favorites were by American authors such as Ernest Hemingway

4. Como se hizo famoso Soto transferred to California State University, Fresno, and in 1972 he took his very first poetry-writing class. From 1972 until 1973 he studied with noted Detroit, Michigan, poet Philip Levine (1928–), who was known for his poems about working-class people. In 1974, Soto graduated from Cal State with a bachelor's degree in English. The following year he began working on a master's degree in creative writing at the University of California, Irvine.