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Raymond Carver
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Raymond Carver was an American short story writer, novelist, poet, and teacher who lived from 1938 to 1988. He is significant for his influential contributions to modern literature across multiple genres, particularly for his distinctive short fiction that shaped contemporary American writing.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 25 May 1938
- Died
- 2 August 1988
- Works
- 147
Top works
- American Voices
- Si em necessites, truca'm
- Principiants
- Todos nosotros
- Principiantes
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Film & TV
Writing · Clatskanie, Oregon, USA
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. was an American short-story writer and poet. Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story during the 1980s.
Known for
- To Write and Keep Kind — Self (archive footage)1992
- Raymond Carver: Dreams Are What You Wake Up From — Self (archive footage)1989
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1938
- Active to
- 1988
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 235
- Total plays
- 953
Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. Carver is considered a major American writer of the late 20th century and also a major force in the revitalization of the short story in the 1980s. Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mill town on the Columbia River, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. His father, a skilled sawmill worker from Arkansas, was a fisherman and a heavy drinker. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Raymond+Carver
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,612x
- Isolation of biologically active ribonucleic acid from sources enriched in ribonuclease
· 1979 · cited 14,791x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,688x
- GENEPOP (Version 1.2): Population Genetics Software for Exact Tests and Ecumenicism
· 1995 · cited 11,311x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,201x
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Quotes
- “It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power. It is possible to write a line of seemingly innocuous dialogue and have it send a chill along the reader's spine—the source of artistic delight, as Nabokov would have it. That's the kind of writing that most interests me.”
- “How compelling is the voice in the story at hand? That's another test of mine. Like most readers, I turn away from a whine or from the overly self-involved. I don't waste time on smart alecks either. There has to be something at stake, something important working itself out from sentence to sentence.”
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Encyclopedic overview
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. His breakout collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), received immediate acclaim and established Carver as an important figure in the literary world. It was followed by Cathedral (1983), which Carver considered his watershed and is widely regarded as his masterpiece. The definitive collection of his stories, Where I'm Calling From, was published shortly before his death in 1988. In their 1989 nomination of Carver for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the jury concluded, "The revival in recent years of the short story is attributable in great measure to Carver's mastery of the form."
Early life
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