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- American short-story writer and poet
- Alcoholism in the 1970s
- Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon
-  The son of Ella Beatrice and Clevie Raymond Carver
- One brother, James Franklin Carver

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- Son of a sawmill worker
- Married a year after finishing high school
- Working as a janitor, gas-station attendant, and delivery man
- Creative-writing course at Chico State College
- Studied at Humboldt State College
- Began writing full-time after losing his job as a textbook editor in 1970

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Dirty realism is a North American literary movement in the 1970’s-80’s.
It is a subcategory of realism. The writers tend to write about the more mundane aspects of ordinary life in a spare, unadorned language. The setting and characters are portrayed in ordinary and unremarkable environments where the situation often reflects a lack of resources and inner desperation. The darker side of everyday life.
Dirty realism is associated with minimalism in the sense that it is characterised by an economy with words and a focus on surface description where the objects and acts dictate the actual meaning of the story.

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Raymond carver's blue collar life is often reflected in his stories such as one more thing and chef’s house.

Raymond Carver is also known for his very engaged editor, Gordon Lish, who is known for not only pushing him to make his stories have even more powerful characteristics of minimalism. But also direct changes in how carvers stories were told causing this quote by carver himself “ if I have any standing or reputation or credibility in the world, I owe it to you.”.

Raymond Carver writing style has a very autobiographical style to it, often seen in his themes of middle class life.

Raymond Carver often gave power inanimate objects using them in his narrative as for example as i clearly seen in the luggage from one more thing.