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Raymond Carver
Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an Americanshort story writer and poet.
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Carver is considered a major American writer of the late 20th century. He also helped improve short story writing in the 1980s.
Life
[change | change source]Early life and first marriage
[change | change source]Carver was born in America, in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mill town on the Columbia River, and grew up in Yakima, Washington.[1] His father was a skilled sawmill worker from Arkansas.
He was a fisherman and a heavy drinker. Carver's mother sometimes worked as a waitress and as a clerk in a shop.
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He had one brother, James Franklin Carver, was born in 1943.
Carver studied at local schools in Amery, Wisconsin. In his spare time he read mostly novels by Mickey Spillane or publications such as Sports Afield and Outdoor Life and hunted and fished with friends and family.
After graduating from Yakima High School in 1956, Carver worked with his fat