The Lives and Works of Raymond Carver

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With a unique and brilliant style of writing, Raymond Carver has left a lasting and outstanding impact on the history of short stories. Even though Raymond Carver left a long impact, his life was of the opposite. Like Raymond Carver’s famous award winning stories, his life was short. Raymond Carver was born on May 25th, 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mill town on the Columbia River. Carver grew up in Yakima, Washington. Carver had three members to his small family, his mother, his father, and brother. Carver’s only had one sibling, his younger brother, James Franklin Carver. Carver’s mother worked as a waitress and a retail clerk while Carver’s father worked as a fisherman and a saw mill worker. Many say that a skilled sawmill worker and a fisherman was not the only thing that Carver’s father was. Many would say that Carver’s father was also an alcoholic. Being that Carver grew up in a family with a father as an alcoholic, he was exposed to a sense of dirty realism in the world. This exposure in Carver’s early life most likely is a great contributing factor to his writing style in which he develops later on in his life, as a writer.(King)
Carver started his education career in Yakima, Washington, where he attended school until 1956. Carver always loved to read and write. Whenever he had spare time, Carver would read many novels by Mickey Spillane and many publications. Also, Carver enjoyed fishing and hunting with his friends and family. After Carver graduated High School in 1956, he worked with his father as a Sawmill worker. Carver married a girl named Maryann Burk, who was sixteen years old at the time. Carver was nineteen when he was married, his early marriage put a halt to his writing career. One year after they got married...

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