Poet Gary Soto

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Gary Soto

Living place: Fresno

Birthday: 12-4-1952 (72 years old)

Population of US 1952: 157,552,740

Global rank: #20729

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Poet Gary Soto profile

Who is Poet Gary Soto?
Mexican-American poet and author best known for The Tale of Sunlight, a 1978 Pulitzer Prize-nominated collection of poems. He is also known for Living Up the Street, a 1985, American Book Award-winning memoir.
He writes baseball in April and other award-winning books for children and teenagers.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He attended the University of California-Irvine and California State University-Fresno.

Family life info

He was born in Fresno, California to a Mexican-American family. He married Carolyn Oda in 1975 and he has a son named Mariko.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Gary Soto?
He was inspired by the literary works of John Steinbeck.

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When was Poet Gary Soto born?
Gary Soto birthday 12-4-1952 (at the age of 72).
Where is Poet Gary Soto's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Gary Soto was born in Fresno, California- United States. is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Gary Soto's global rank is 20729 and whose rank is 23 in list of famous Poet. Population of US in 1952 is about 157,552,740 persons.
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Events in 1952 and 12-4

Events in US in the birth year of Gary Soto

  • US explodes first thermonuclear bomb at Enewetak Island (Nov. 1).
  • President-elect Dwight Eisenhower follows through with his campaign promise to visit Korea (Dec. 2).
  • 56 million watch Richard Nixon's "Checker's speech" on TV.

Birthday Gary Soto (12-4) in history

  • Day 12-4 year 1861: The Civil War began when Fort Sumter was attacked.
  • Day 12-4 year 1862: James J. Andrews led the raiding party that stole the Confederate locomotive "The General," inspiring the 1926 Buster Keaton movie.
  • Day 12-4 year 1945: President Franklin Roosevelt died.
  • Day 12-4 year 1955: The polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was called "safe, effective, and potent."
  • Day 12-4 year 1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin became the first human in space and also the first human to orbit the earth in a spacecraft.
  • Day 12-4 year 1981: The first space shuttle, Columbia, took its first test flight.
  • Day 12-4 year 1983: Harold Washington was elected Chicago’s first African-American mayor.
  • Day 12-4 year 1999: Arkansas federal judge Susan Webber Wright found President Clinton in contempt of court for lying about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
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