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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.
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,…
May 21, 2024 · 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. Carver was the son of a sawmill worker.
Nov 19, 2009 · Raymond Carver, surely the most influential writer of American short stories in the second half of the 20th century, makes an early appearance in Carol Sklenicka’s exhaustive and...
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.
Nov 20, 2009 · Few American short story writers have been celebrated as Raymond Carver was in the 1980s. Because his spare, colloquial prose hints at something absent and mysterious, critics called him the...
Raymond Carver. 1938–1988. The work of Raymond Carver—born on May 25, 1938, in Clatskanie, Oregon, and raised primarily in Yakima, Washington—is often associated with the term “minimalism,” though Carver himself disputed this designation.
Dec 3, 2009 · Carol Sklenicka's biography examines the famous writer's personal demons, his remarkable transformation, and investigates whether Carver's famously minimalist style was actually imposed by his...
Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938– August 2, 1988) was an American short-story writer and poet. Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story in literature during the 1980s. #AmericanWriters.
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.
