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Birth - Death - Background

henry_fisk — 2013-09-09 12:15:55 UTC

Raymond Carver was born in May 25 1938 Clatskanie, Oregon, United States. He died of lung cancer in August 2 1988 Port Angeles, 50 years old.

Raymond Carver published 10 books of prose and poetry in a career shadowed by alcoholism, poverty.

Background: His father was a skilled sawmill worker from Arkansas, besides that he was a fisherman and a heavy drinker.

Carver's mother worked on and off as a waitress and a retail clerk and his only brother, James Franklin Carver, was born in 1943.

Stupid

henry_fisk — 2013-09-09 12:43:41 UTC

His second wife Tess Gallagher

henry_fisk — 2013-09-09 13:02:35 UTC

Raymond Carver with his second wife, the poet Tess Gallagher, photographed in 1984, in Syracuse, New York. Photograph: Bob Adelman/Corbis

The Author - His carrer and writingstyle

henry_fisk — 2013-09-09 13:09:09 UTC

Raymond dreamt of being a writer and write full-time, since he was a child.

In 1960 Raymond Carver makes his first appearance short story The Furious Seasons.

In 1988 his last 8 history under the name elephant.

Awards: Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award

Minimalism is generally seen as one of the hallmarks of Carver's work.He describes the ordinary life, the uneducated and regular "working Joe", addicts, people WHO struggles with life. He writes using a "simple" language, that some call "dirty realism" it's the fiction of a new generation of American authors.

Dinky

henry_fisk — 2013-09-09 13:23:36 UTC

Dinky means : "Tiny, small" or "Dual Income No Kids Yuppie

Dansk info side om Raymond Carver

henry_fisk — 2013-09-12 18:45:44 UTC

Raymond Carver

2013-09-13 06:13:48 UTC

Overweight had been a part of his own life. The Picture shows him with his second wife Tess Gallager. It was the final chapter in his life, cancer, medicine and bad health (Wikippedia)

A Diner

2013-09-13 06:13:53 UTC

A typical American diner

Made by

henry_fisk — 2013-09-13 06:33:50 UTC

Akram, Henriette & Jørgen

Main Source:

Wikipeda, Litteratursiden.dk

& Google

His first wife Maryann Burk Carver

nancke — 2013-09-13 06:50:39 UTC

June 1957, aged 19, he married 16-year-old Maryann Burk (Wikippedia)

Understanding Raymond Carver, Background, The writer, Life and Death

henry_fisk — 2013-09-13 06:57:11 UTC

The broken down

nancke — 2013-09-13 07:15:40 UTC

The people he wrote about

2 Examples of his poems Poems + Links : "Dinky" and "Stupid"

nancke — 2013-09-13 07:21:01 UTC