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- Raymond Carver was born on May 25, 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon, USA. He was a writer, known for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Short Cuts (1993) and Everything Must Go (2010). He was married to Tess Gallagher and Maryanna Burk-Carver. He died on August 2, 1988 in Port Angeles, Washington, USA.
- SpousesTess Gallagher(June 17, 1988 - August 2, 1988) (his death)Maryanna Burk-Carver(June 7, 1957 - 1982) (divorced, 2 children)
- He is considered one of the most important writers in American short story Literature.
- Started writing in his early twenties after moving to California.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 168-170. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
- Worked as a janitor in a hospital, delivery man, sawmill laborer and library assistant.
- Father of daughter, Christine, and son, Vance.
- I revise because it gradually takes me into the heart of what the story is about. I have to keep trying to see if I can find that out. It's a process more than a fixed position.
- 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.
- That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places so that they can best say what they are meant to say.
- A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.
- There has to be something at stake, something important working itself out from sentence to sentence.
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