Raymond Carver
1938-1988 Birth/Family Born on May 25, Father: worked at a 1938 in Clatskanie sawmill Oregon He grew up in Yakima Mother: various jobs, Washington. including waitressing, One brother- James clerk and a high Franklin Carver, that school teacher was 5 years younger.
Education In 1956 Carver graduated from Yakima High School in Washington He attended many courses of Creative Writing. He went to the Chico State University and then The Humboldt State College and finally received his Bachelors degree in 1963. Mid-1960’s attended writing classes at Sacramento State College. Master of fine arts graduate from the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop
Jobs and Career Sawmill hand Janitor Managed a apartment complex Delivery person Sale representative Text book editor for Science Research Associates Teacher at universities all around the country in creative writing programs
Writing career 72 short stories Near Klamath (1968) 306 poems Furious Seasons and Other a one-act play Stories (1977)- 8 short a screenplay co-written stories with Tess Gallagher Dostoevsky (1985)- a 32 pieces of non-fiction screenplay (essays, a meditation, Ultramarine (1986)- 84 introductions, and book poems reviews). Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories (1988)- 37 short stories Well Known Works o Will you Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976) o What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981) o Cathedral (1983) Accomplishments “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?” appeared on the Best American Short Stories
“My Fathers Life” (a essay) was published in the September 1984 issue of Esquire
"Where I'm Calling From" from “Cathedral” was selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of the Century.
"A Small, Good Thing", and "Where I'm Calling From” are also among the award-winning stories.
Influential People Taught by: Dennis Schmitz Influenced by William and John Gardner (novelist Faulkner and mentor)
Literary connections with His close friends were Gordon Lish (writer) and Dennis Schmitz (poet), George Hitchcock (actor, Chuck Kinder (novelist), playwright, publisher) Max Crawford, and William Kittredge Wife compared him to (writer) Tennessee Williams Personal Life 1957- he married his first wife, Maryann Burke and had a daughter the same year and a son the next. Became an alcoholic, attempted recovery but was hospitalized 3 times (June 1976, February and March 1977); then he finally stopped.
1982- divorced Maryann Burke
1988- married Tess Gallagher Death Died August 2, 1988 Port Angeles due to lung cancer. Carver was fifty years old at the time of his death.
Work Cited Authors, Famous. Raymond Carver Biography. 2014. 20 July 2014.