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   Raymond Carver Biography - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Raymond Carver was an influential American short story writer and poet known for his realistic yet minimalist depictions of middle-class life. He revived the short story genre in the 1980s.

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   In her groundbreaking biography of Raymond Carver, Carol Sklenicka offers readers an intimate and illuminating portrait of one of America's greatest short story writers. With meticulous research and deep empathy, Sklenicka delves into Carver's tumultuous life, from his troubled childhood to his battles with addiction,

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   Examine the life, times, and work of Raymond Carver through detailed author biographies on eNotes.

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   Poet and short-story writer Raymond Carver was born in the logging town of Clatskanie, Oregon, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. He was married and the father of two before he was 20, and he held a number of low-paying jobs: he “picked tulips, pumped gas, swept hospital corridors, swabbed toilets, [and] managed an apartment complex ...

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   Raymond Carver has become a literary icon for our time. When he died in 1988 at the age of fifty, he was acclaimed as the greatest influence on the American sho...

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   Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography. Book. Sam Halpert. 1995. Published by: University of Iowa Press. View. summary. Raymond Carver has become a literary icon for our time. When he died in 1988 at the age of fifty, he was acclaimed as the greatest influence on the American short story since Hemingway.

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   Who is Raymond Carver?

   • Raymond Carver (b. 1938 as Raymond Clevie Carver Jr.\, d. 1988) is an American writer known for his short stories and poetry. Carver’s style of writing has been described as minimalism and dirty realism.

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   How many books does Raymond Carver have?

   • The bibliography of Raymond Carver consists of 72 short stories, 306 poems, a novel fragment, a one-act play, a screenplay co-written with Tess Gallagher, and 32 pieces of non-fiction (essays, a meditation, introductions, and book reviews).

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   Did Carver ever want to be a writer?

   • Carver has said that he could not remember when he did not want to be a writer; he even took a correspondence course in writing when he was a teenager. He was never really interested in writing a novel but rather liked short stories—a form which he said best suited the circumstances of his life, for they could be finished in a few sittings.

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   What did John Carver do after he returned to Sacramento?

   • After returning, Carver held a number of minor jobs in Sacramento as a mill hand and a delivery boy, but perhaps his most fortunate job was a two-year stint as a night watchman at a hospital, where he was able to squeeze in some time writing. In 1967, Carver got a job as a textbook editor for Science Research Associates in Palo Alto, California.

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   What was the economy of Carver's writing?

   • One of Carver’s last stories, “Errand,” took place during the final hours of the Russian writer’s life. The economy of Carver’s writing was not a purely aesthetic choice. He often worked day jobs and thus had less time to devote to his writing.

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   What happened to John Carver?

   • His works have been translated into more than twenty languages. In 1987, after he had put together still another collection of both old and new stories, Carver, a heavy smoker, was diagnosed as having lung cancer. He underwent surgery in the fall, then radiation treatments.

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   BIOGRAPHY OF Raymond Carver Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon on May 25, 1938, to Clevie Raymond and Ella Casey Carver. In 1941, Raymond’s family moved to Yakima, Washington where Raymond’s only sibling, James Carver, was born. On June 7, 1957, Carver married his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maryann Burk.