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Bookmark or Share- Raymond Carver (Author of What We Talk About When We Talk ...Rejecting the more experimental fiction of the 60s and 70s, he pioneered a precisionist realism reinventing the American short story during the eighties, heading the line of so-called 'dirty realists' or 'K-mart realists'. Set in trailer parks and shopping malls, they are stories of banal lives that turn on a seemingly insignificant detai.
- Raymond Carver | Biography, Books, & Facts | BritannicaRaymond 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.
- Raymond Carver | The Poetry FoundationPoet and short-story writer Raymond Carver was born in the logging town of Clatskanie, Oregon, and grew up in Yakima, Washington.
- Raymond Carver (1938-1988) - The Oregon EncyclopediaRaymond Carver was America’s preeminent short story-writer during the 1970s and 1980s, a time that witnessed a great renaissance of the art of the story. In his stories, and also his poems and essays, Carver recorded with poignancy and humor the financial and emotional bankruptcies that beset the working poor.
- Raymond Carver - WikipediaRaymond 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.
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