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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, [and] managed an apartment complex ...
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.
Raymond Carver has 326 books on Goodreads with 495964 ratings. Raymond Carver’s most popular book is What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
Aug 4, 1988 · Raymond Carver, a poet and short story writer who overcame the twin demons of despair and drinking to become one of the nation's leading chroniclers of working people, has died of lung...
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May 14, 2018 · Although critics are divided over the relative merits of Carver's early bleak experimental stories and his later more conventional and morally optimistic stories, there is little disagreement that Raymond Carver is the ultimate modern master of the "much-in-little" nature of the short story form.
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.
Examine the life, times, and work of Raymond Carver through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
