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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.
Raymond Carver. 1938–1988. Jerry Bauer. Poet and short-story writer Raymond Carver was born in the logging town of Clatskanie, Oregon, and grew up in Yakima, Washington.
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.
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 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...
Raymond Carver was an American short story writer and poet. He was born in Clatskanie, Oregon in 1938 and grew up in Yakima, Washington. His father was a sawmill worker and his mother was a waitress and clerk.
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. 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.
May 14, 2018 · Born: Clatskanie, Oregon, 25 May 1938. Education: Chico State College, California (founding editor, Selection ), 1958-59; Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, 1960-63, A.B. 1963; University of Iowa, 1963-64, M.F.A. 1966.
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...
