Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon. Carver's alcoholic father, C.R. Carver, died on June 17, 1967. For a time, Carver studied under the author John Gardner[?] at Chico State College in Chico, California.

Carver eventually remarried, to the poet Tess Gallagher[?]. He was good friends with Tobias Wolff[?] and Richard Ford. In 1988, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters[?].

Carver's writings are often associated with minimalism. Carver published often in Esquire[?], and his editor there, Gordon Lish[?], was instrumental in shaping Carver's prose. For example, where Gardner had advised Carver to use 15 words instead of 25, Lish instructed Carver to use 5 in place of 15. During this time, Carver also submitted poetry to James Dickey, then poetry editor of Esquire.

Works

Fiction

• Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
• Furious Seasons
• Cathedral
• Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
• Short Cuts

Poetry

• All of Us: The Collected Poems
• A New Path to the Waterfall
• Ultramarine
• Where Water Comes Together with Other Water
• At Night the Salmon Move
• Winter Insomnia
• Near Klamath

Collected

• Fires