Opinion: Gary Soto, A Storyteller Unfairly Shunned

By Esther J.Cepeda - NBC Latino | Posted Thursday, October 10, 2013, at 11:10 a.m. ET

In a heartbreaking essay, "Why I've Stopped Writing Children's Literature," author and poet Gary Soto described how Marisol, a story about an 18-inch doll, became his undoing. It shouldn't had been so.  Read it at NBC Latino