Raymond Carver

Died in 1988

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938, the son of a sawmill worker. Married at nineteen, a father of two before he was twenty, he worked as a janitor, delivery man and sawmill employee, and attended the novelist John Gardner's workshop in Chico. He stopped drinking in 1977. He published three major story collections, then an enlarged selection, as well as poems, and spent his last years with the poet Tess Gallagher. He died in Port Angeles, in Washington State, in 1988, at the age of fifty.

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Short storiesCathedralRaymond Carver · 1983Literature