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California is the third largest state of the Union with a total area of 158,706 square miles. The oldest living things on earth are believed to be a stand of Bristle cone pines in the Inyo National Forest. They are estimated to be 4,600 years old. Then again, Creosote Bush in the Mojave Desert is said to be 11,700 years old. A Natural History of California The world's tallest tree, the Howard Libbey redwood, 362 feet tall with a girth of 44 feet, stands on Redwood Creek in Humbolt County. Tumbling 2,425 feet into Yosemite Valley is Yosemite Falls, the fifth highest waterfall in the world and the tallest waterfall in North America. Yosemite National Park is 1,700 square miles of Sierra Nevada splendor. Mt. Whitney, 14,494 feet, is the highest mountain in California. Death Valley is 282 feet below sea level and is the lowest Continental spot. |
Soto, one of the most honored of the Fresno Poets and Latino poets, has actually escaped labels -- he is regarded simply as a fine writer. He is nonetheless a Fresno native, proudly Latino, who remembers having been an uninspired student -- "I went to school, as my mother put it, 'to eat my lunch'." He soon discovered the Fresno Public Library, though, "which I considered a great gift to the poor." Eventually, he graduated from Fresno State and the University of California, at Irvine, and he hasn't looked back since. He has won numerous awards, and worked successfully in prose, verse and script writing. He has won a number of awards including, an Academy of American Poets Prize, the U.S. Award from the International Poetry Forum, The Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, Commonwealth Club of California Silver Medal, and the Beatty award from the California Library Association. He has received grants from the Guggenheim Fellowship the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. He has also been a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry. Gary Soto's short film The Pool Party was awarded the Andrew Carneigie Medal of Excellence in Children's Video.  Sample
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| Baseball in April | Fiction | San Diego, CA; Harcourt Brace & Company | 1990 |
| Black Hair | Poetry | Uni. of Pittsburgh Press | 1985 |
| Buried Onions | Fiction | San Diego, CA; Harcourt Brace | 1997 |
| Canto Familiar/Familiar Song | Poetry | San Diego, CA; Harcourt Brace & Company | 1995 |
| California Childhood, Editor | Anthology | Creative Arts Book Co. | 1988 |
| Crazy Weekend | Fiction | Scholastic | 1994 |
| Elements of San Joaquin | Poetry | Uni. of Pittsburgh Press | 1977 |
| A Fire in My Hands | Poetry | Scholastic Inc. | 1990 |
| Home Course in Religion | Poetry | San Francisco, CA; Chronicle Books | 1991 |
| Jesse | Fiction | San Diego, CA; Harcourt Brace & Company | 1994 |
| Junior College | Poetry | San Francisco, CA; Chronicle Books | 1997 |
| Living Up the Street | Fiction | Dell | 1992 |
| Lesser Evils | Fiction | Arte Publico | 1988 |
| Local News | Fiction | San Diego, CA; Harcourt Brace & Company | 1993 |
| Neighborhood Odes | Poetry | San Diego, CA; Harcourt Brace & Company | 1992 |
| New and Selected Poems | Poetry | San Francisco, CA; Chronicle Books | 1995 |
| Novio Boy, a Play | Drama | San Diego, CA; Harcourt Brace & Company | 1997 |
| Pacific Crossing | Fiction | San Diego, CA; Harcourt Brace & Company | 1992 |
| Petty Crimes | Fiction | San Diego, CA; Harcourt Brace & Company | 1998 |
| Pieces of the Heart: Recent Chicano Fiction | Fiction | San Francisco, CA; SF Chronicle Books | 1993 |
| The Pool Party | Film | ||
| Small Faces | Fiction | Dell | 1993 |
| A Summer Life | Fiction | Uni. Press of New England Dell | 1990 1991 |
| Summer on Wheels | Fiction | Scholastic | 1995 1991 |
| Taking Sides | Fiction | San Diego, CA; Harcourt Brace & Company | 1991 |
| The Tale of Sunlight | Poetry | Uni. of Pittsburgh Press | 1978 |
| Where Sparrows Work Hard | Poetry | Uni. of Pittsburgh Press | 1981 |
| Who Will Know Us | Poetry | San Francisco, CA; SF Chronicle Books | 1990 |
Author list| The Pilgrim Among Us | Poetry | ||
| Silk | Poetry | ||
| Talking to Water | Poetry |
| Where the Angels Come Toward Us | Nonfiction | ||
| Hush | Poetry | ||
| No Heaven | Poetry | ||
| The Shore | Poetry |
| Americans and the California Dream | Nonfiction | ||
| The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s | Nonfiction | New York: Oxford University Press | 1998 |
| Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California | Nonfiction | 1997 |
Author list| Boy on Horseback | Nonfiction |
| Outposts of Eden | Nonfiction |
| All the Little Live Things | Fiction | ||
| Angle of Repose | Fiction | ||
| Crossing to Safety | Fiction | ||
| The Shooting Star | Fiction | ||
| The Spectator Bird | Fiction |
Author listNobel Prize for literature for The Grapes of Wrath, a novel so powerful that it remains among the archetypes of American Culture. Master story teller born in Salinas, CA He studied Marine Biology at Stanford University but left without taking a degree and, after a series of laboring jobs, began to write. An attempt at a free-lance literary career in New York failed, and he returned to California, continuing to write. Popular success came to him in 1935 with Tortilla Flat. | |||
| America and Americans | Nonfiction | ||
| Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team | Nonfiction | ||
| Burning Bright (Play in story form) | Fiction | ||
| Cannery Row | Fiction | Great Britain; William Heinemann Ltd. USA; The Viking Press | 1937 1945 |
| Cup of Gold | Fiction | ||
| East of Eden | Fiction | ||
| The Forgotten Village | Drama | ||
| The Grapes of Wrath | Fiction | 1939 | |
| The Harvest Gypsies | Nonfiction | ||
| In Dubious Battle | Fiction | ||
| Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters | Nonfiction | ||
| The Log from the Sea of Cortez | Nonfiction | ||
| The Long Valley | Fiction | ||
| The Moon Is Down | Drama | ||
| Of Mice and Men | Drama | ||
| Of Mice and Men | Fiction | Great Britain; William Heinemann Ltd. USA; Covici-Friede | 1937 1937 |
| Once There Was a War | Nonfiction | ||
| The Moon Is Down | Fiction | ||
| The Pastures of Heaven | Fiction | ||
| The Pearl | Fiction | ||
| The Red Pony | Fiction | ||
| A Russian Journal (with pictures by Robert Capa) | Nonfiction | ||
| Saint Katy the Virgin | Fiction | ||
| (with Edward F. Ricketts) Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research | Nonfiction | ||
| The Short Reingn of Pippin IV: A Fabrication | Fiction | ||
| Sweet Thursday | Fiction | ||
| Travels with Charley in Search of America | Nonfiction | ||
| To a God Unknown | Fiction | ||
| Tortilla Flat | Fiction | ||
| Viva Zapata! | Drama | ||
| The Wayward Bus | Fiction | ||
| The Winter of Our Discontent | Fiction | ||
| Roger, Rick, Karl and Shane Are Friends of Mine | Poetry |
| From Scotland to Silverado | Nonfiction |
Author list| Fire | Fiction | ||
| Ordeal by Hunger | Fiction | ||
| Storm | Fiction |
| Count Ten | Fiction |
| The Land of Purple Shadows | Fiction |
| Sailor on Horseback | Nonfiction |
| Who Is Alice? | Poetry |
| Dr. Dave | Nonfiction |
| The Shape of Waters | Poetry |
| Collected Poems 1957-91 | Poetry |
| Toxin | Poetry |
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