Gary Soto is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gary Soto's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was a student at the University of California-Irvine as well as California State University-Fresno.
The author wrote Baseball in April, as well as other award-winning books for kids and young adults.
Soto was born to Mexican-American parents Manuel (1910–1957) and Angie Soto (1924-). 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, hence, he was not a good student. 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.
