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Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976.
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Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988)...
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Raymond Carver (born May 25, 1938, Clatskanie, Oregon, U.S.—died August 2, 1988, Port Angeles, Washington) was an American short-story writer and poet whose realistic writings about the working poor mirrored his own life.
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Early life and first marriage
Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mill town on the Columbia River, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. His father was a skilled sawmill worker from Arkansas. He was a fisherman and a heavy drinker. Carver's mother sometimes worked as a waitress and as a clerk in a shop. He had one brother, James Franklin Carver, was born in 1943. Carver studied at local schools in Amery, Wisconsin. In his spare time he read mostly novels by Mickey Spillane or publications such as Sports Afield and Outdo...
California and beginning to write
Carver became interested in writing in California. He had moved there with his family because his mother-in-law had a home in Paradise. Carver attended a creative-writing course taught by the novelist John Gardner. Gardner became his mentor and had a major influence on Carver's life and career. Carver continued his studies first at Chico State University and then at Humboldt State College in Arcata, California, where he studied with Richard Cortez Day. Carver received his B.A. in 1963. During...
Alcoholism
During his years of working different jobs, rearing children, and trying to write, Carver started to drink heavily. He said that he eventually more or less gave up writing and started drinking all of the time. In the fall semester of 1973, Carver was a teacher in the Iowa Writers' Workshop with John Cheever, but Carver said that they did less teaching than drinking and almost no writing. The next year, after leaving Iowa City, Cheever went to a treatment center to try to overcome his alcoholi...
Carver's career was dedicated to short stories and poetry. He often wrote about blue-collarexperiences. These were similar to his own life. In the same way, he often included themes of alcoholism and recovery from his life. His first published story appeared in 1960, titled "The Furious Seasons." His first collection, Will You Please Be Quiet, Plea...
Short Cuts directed by Robert AltmanEverything Goes directed by Andrew KotatkoJindabyne (based on So Much Water So Close to Home) directed by Ray LawrenceEverything Must Go directed by Dan Rush and starring Will FerrellCarver, Maryann Burk (2006). What It Used to Be Like; A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-33258-0.Nesset, Kirk (1995). Stories Of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study. Ohio University Press. ISBN 0821411004.Charles McGrath (October 28, 2007). "I, Editor Author". Week in Review, New York Times. Retrieved 2007-10-28.Pieters, Jesús (2004). El silencio de lo real: sentido, comprensión e interpretación en la narrativa de Raymond Carver. Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana. ISBN 9789800112199.Mona Simpson, Lewis Buzbee (Summer 1983). "Raymond Carver, The Art of Fiction No. 76". Paris Review. Summer 1983 (88).Koehne, David (1978). "Echoes of Our Own Lives; An interview with Raymond Carver". Archived from the original on 2005-11-30. Retrieved 2010-11-23.Yardley, Jonathan (2006). "Raymond Carver's first wife remembers the influential American writer". The Washington Post. A review of Maryann Burk Carver's What It Used To Be Like; A Portrait of My M...King, Stephen (2009). "Raymond Carver's Life and Stories". The New York Times. A review of Raymond Carver A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka and Raymond Carver Collected Storiesedited by William L....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 ...
Raymond Carver was America’s preeminent short story-writer during the 1970s and 1980s, a time that witnessed a great renaissance of the art of the story. In his stories, and also his poems and essays, Carver recorded with poignancy and humor the financial and emotional bankruptcies that beset the working poor.
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Carver was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. He married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of 'full-time drinking as a serious pursuit', a career that would eventually kill him.
