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  1. Raymond Carver. Raymond 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.

    • Short story, poetry
    • Writer
    • American
  2. Raymond Carver, American short-story writer and poet whose realistic writings about the working poor mirrored his own life and whose prose was noted for its minimalism. His notable story collections included Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and Where I’m Calling From.

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  3. Poet and short-story writer Raymond Carver was born in the logging town of Clatskanie, Oregon, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. He was married and the father of two before he was 20, and he held a number of low-paying jobs: he “picked tulips, pumped gas, swept hospital corridors, swabbed toilets,…

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  5. Nov 19, 2009 · By Stephen King. Nov. 19, 2009. Raymond Carver, surely the most influential writer of American short stories in the second half of the 20th century, makes an early appearance in Carol...

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    • August 2, 1988
    • May 25, 1938
    • What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
    • Cathedral.
    • Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories.
    • Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
  6. Raymond Carver (1938-1988) Raymond 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.

  7. death and ambition, even love, doesn't enter into this. Happiness. It comes on. unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. Raymond Carver, "Happiness" from All of Us:The Collected Poems, copyright © by Tess Gallagher.

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