Gary Soto
Autor(a) de Too Many Tamales
About the Author
Gary Soto was born April 12, 1952, and raised in Fresno California. He graduated from Roosevelt High School and attended Fresno City College, graduating in 1974 with an English degree. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including The Nation, Plouqhshares, The Iowa Review, Ontario mostrar mais Review and Poetry, which has honored him with the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson Award and by featuring him in Poets in Person. He is one of the youngest poets to appear in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. Soto has received the Discovery-The Nation Prize, the U.S. Award of the International Poetry Forum, The California Library Association's John and Patricia Beatty Award twice, a Recogniton of Merit from the Claremont Graduate School for Baseball in April, the Silver Medal from The Commonwealth Club of California, and the Tomás Rivera Prize, in addition to fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts twice, and the California Arts Council. For ITVS, he produced the film The Pool Party, which received the 1993 Andrew Carnegie Medal. Soto wrote the libretto for an opera titled Nerd-landia for the The Los Angeles Opera. In 1999 he received the Literature Award from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association, and the PEN Center West Book Award for Petty Crimes. He serves as Young People's Ambassador for the California Rural Legal Assistance and the United Farm Workers of America. Soto is the author of ten poetry collections for adults, with New and Selected Poems a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the National Book Award. His recollections Living Up the Street received a Before Columbus Foundation 1985 American Book Award. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Gary Soto
What the World Hears : California Poets in the Schools 2009 Statewide Anthology - 45th Anniversary Edition (2009) 4 exemplares
The Marble Champ 2 exemplares
Tamales 1 exemplar
The Afterlife 1 exemplar
To Many Tamales 1 exemplar
Seventh Grade 1 exemplar
Chatos Kitchen 1 exemplar
Too Many Tomales 1 exemplar
Isolation Ward 1 exemplar
Como arbustos de niebla 1 exemplar
Big Bushy Mustache, Unit 1 1 exemplar
Tell Me, Once Again, What Was It Like? 1 exemplar
Gil Mendez & the Metaphysics of a Blimp 1 exemplar
La Bamba 1 exemplar
Chatos Kitchen - Take Home Book Packs 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Contribuidor — 102 exemplares
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement (1997) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 100 exemplares
Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience (2019) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry (1994) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry (1994) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy (2020) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1952-05-12
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Fresno, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- Fresno, California, USA
Berkeley, California, USA - Educação
- Fresno City College
University of California, Irvine
California State University - Ocupações
- poet
Distinguished Professor, University of California
editor
author
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 96
- Also by
- 32
- Membros
- 11,816
- Popularidade
- #1,987
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 461
- ISBN
- 577
- Línguas
- 4
- Marcado como favorito
- 4