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<h3>"It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of
becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar."
-- Raymond Carver</h3>
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The American short story writer and poet Raymond Carver was born in
Clatskanie, Oregon, on May 25, 1938, and lived in Port Angeles, Washington
during his last ten, sober years until his death from cancer on August 2,
1988. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979 and was twice awarded grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1983 Carver received the
prestigious Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award which gave him $35,000
per year tax free and required that he give up any employment other than
writing, and in 1985 <cite>Poetry</cite> magazine's Levinson Prize. In
1988 he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and
Letters and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the
University of Hartford. He received a Brandeis Citation for fiction in
1988. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.
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At least that's the basic biography. Of course there's no room in it for
the nature of the hardship he and his family went through during most of
those fifty years between birth and death. There's no mention of his
marriage at 19, the birth of his two children, Christine and Vance, by the
time he was 21. No mention of his sometimes ferocious fights with his
first wife, Maryann. No mention, either, of his near death, the
hospitalisations--four times in 1976 and 1977--for acute alcoholism.
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For a fuller story, go on to <a HREF="Carver-paper.html">one of my
graduate papers about Carver.</a>
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<A HREF = "rayarticle.html">David Koehne's interview with
Carver</A> from 1978.
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Yes, they want to sell magazines, so, yes, it's an ad, but I
couldn't resist linking to
<A HREF = "http://hearstmags.com/esquire/carver.htm">an excerpt</A>
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of three newly discovered Carver stories to be published
in <cite>Esquire</cite>
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<center><h3>Incomplete Bibliography</h3></center>
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<h3>Published Fiction</h3>
<ul><li><cite>Put Yourself in My Shoes.</cite> Santa Barbara: Capra,
1974.
<li><cite>Will you Please Be Quiet, Please?.</cite> New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1976.
<li><cite>Furious Seasons and Other Stories.</cite> Santa Barbara:
Capra, 1977.
<li><cite>What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.</cite> New York:
Knopf, 1981.<li><cite>The Pheasant.</cite> Worcester, MA: Metacom, 1982.
<li><cite>Cathedral.</cite> New York: Knopf, 1983.
<li><cite>If It Please You.</cite> Northridge, CA: Lord John, 1984.
<li><cite>The Stories of Raymond Carver.</cite> London: Picador, 1985.
<li><cite>My Father's Life.</cite> Derry, NH: Babcock & Koontz, 1986.
<li><cite>Those Days: Early Writings by Raymond Carver.</cite> Elmwood,
CT: Raven, 1987.
<li><cite>Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories.</cite> New
York: Atlantic Monthly, 1988; Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library,
1988.
<li><cite>Elephant and Other Stories.</cite> London: Collins Harvill,
1988.</ul>
<h3>Published Poetry</h3>
<ul><li><cite>Near Klamath.</cite> Sacramento: English Club of
Sacramento State College, 1968.
<li><cite>Winter Insomnia.</cite> Santa Cruz: Kayak, 1970.
<li><cite>At Night the Salmon Move.</cite> Santa Barbara: Capra, 1976.
<li><cite>Two Poems </cite>["The Baker" and "Louise"]. Salisbury, MD:
Scarab, 1982.
<li><cite>Where Water Comes Together with Other Water.</cite> New York:
Random House, 1985.
<li><cite>Ultramarine.</cite> New York: Random House, 1986.
<li><cite>Two Poems </cite>["Reaching" and "Soda Crackers"]. Concord,
NH: Ewert, 1986.
<li><cite>In a Marine Light: Selected Poems.</cite> London: Collins
Harvill, 1987.
<li><cite>A New Path to the Waterfall.</cite> New York: Atlantic
Monthly, 1989.</ul>
<h3>Essays, Poems, and Stories</h3>
<ul><li><cite>Fires.</cite> Santa Barbara: Capra, 1983; New York:
Vintage, 1984; New York: Vintage
Contemporaries, 1989.
<li><cite>No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings.</cite> London:
Collins Harvill, 1991; New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1992.</ul>
<h3>Works Edited by Carver</h3>
<ul><li><cite>The Best American Short Stories 1986.</cite> Edited by
Raymond Carver with Shannon Ravenel. Boston: Houghton Miflin, 1986.
<li><cite>American Short Story Masterpieces.</cite> Edited by Raymond
Carver and Tom Jenks. New York: Delacorte, 1987.</ul>
<h3>And One Screenplay</h3>
<ul> <li><cite>Dostoevsky: A Screenplay.</cite> By Raymond
Carver and Tess Gallagher. Santa Barbara: Capra, 1985.</ul>
<h3>Books About Carver</h3>
<ul> <li><cite>Conversations with Raymond Carver.</cite>
Edited by Marshall Bruce Gentry and William L. Stull. University Press of
Mississippi, 1990. (Seems to include every interview with RC, from
college newspapers to the <cite>Paris Review.</cite>)
<li><cite>Carver Country: the world of Raymond Carver.</cite>
photographs by Bob Adelman. New York: Scribner's, 1990.
<!---a href="http://web.syr.edu/~jlproulx/carver.html">Check out a
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<li><cite>...when we talk about Raymond Carver.</cite> Edited by Sam
Halpert. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 1991. (Good interviews of those who
knew him best.)
<li><cite>Remembering Ray: a composite biography of Raymond
Carver.</cite> Edited by William L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll.
Santa Barbara: Capra, 1993. (Excellent collection of memories by those
who knew him well and some who knew him only through his
work.
<li><cite>Raymond Carver: an oral biography.</cite> by Sam Halpert.
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1995. Enl. ed. of <cite>...when
we talk about Raymond Carver.</cite> 1st ed. 1991. (All of the text from
<cite>...when we talk about Raymond Carver</cite> spliced together to flow
chronologically, early life to later, with six new interviews.)</ul>
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<h3>Documentary</h3>
<ul> <li>"To Write and Keep Kind" Documentary done by PBS station KCTS,
Seattle.</ul>
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<blockquote><blockquote><font size=5>Check out a couple more sites on
Carver, the <a
href="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/9020/carver.html">Carver
Web,</a>
and <a href="http://www.whitman.edu/~lucetb/carver/">Tom Luce's Raymond
Carver Page.</a></font></blockquote></blockquote>
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<ul> <li> <a href="carver-graveside.html">Graveside photo, Port Angeles,
Washington.</a>
<li><a href="kailua-kona-bay.html">Kailua Kona Bay, Big Island, Hawaii</a>
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