About Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His father was a saw-mill worker and his mother was a waitress and clerk. He married early and for years writing had to come second to earning a living for his young family. Despite, small-press publication, it was not until Will You Please Be Quiet Please? appeared in 1976 that his work began to reach a wider audience. This was the year in which he gave up alcohol, which had contributed to the collapse of his marriage. In 1977 he met the writer Tess Gallagher, with whom he shared the last eleven years of his life. During this prolific period he wrote three collections of stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral and Elephant. Fires, a collection of essays, poems and stories, appeared in 1985, followed by three further collections of poetry. In 1988 he completed the poetry collection A New Path to the Waterfall.
Novels
Near Klamath (1968)
Winter Insomnia (1970)
The Pheasant (1982)
If It Please You (1984)
The Window (1985)
My Father's Life (1986)
Winter Insomnia (1970)
The Pheasant (1982)
If It Please You (1984)
The Window (1985)
My Father's Life (1986)
Collections
At Night the Salmon Move (poems) (1976)
Furious Seasons (1976)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories (1982)
Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories (1983)
Cathedral: Stories (1983)
The Stories of Raymond Carver (1985)
Early for the Dance (poems) (1986)
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems (poems) (1986)
Ultramarine (poems) (1986)
Those Days: Early Writings By Raymond Carver : Eleven Poems And a Story (1987)
In a Marine Light: Selected Poems (poems) (1987)
Elephant: And Other Stories (1988)
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1988)
Dostoevsky: A Screenplay / King Dog : A Screenplay (1988)
Where I'm Calling from: New And Selected Stories (1988)
A New Path to the Waterfall: Poems (poems) (1989)
Three Stories (1990)
Short Cuts: Selected Stories (1990)
No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings, 1958-88 (1991)
Two Short Story Collections: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love ; Cathedral (1994)
All of Us: The Collected Poems (poems) (1996)
Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction And Other Prose (2000)
Collected Stories (2009)
Beginners (2009)
Furious Seasons (1976)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories (1982)
Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories (1983)
Cathedral: Stories (1983)
The Stories of Raymond Carver (1985)
Early for the Dance (poems) (1986)
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems (poems) (1986)
Ultramarine (poems) (1986)
Those Days: Early Writings By Raymond Carver : Eleven Poems And a Story (1987)
In a Marine Light: Selected Poems (poems) (1987)
Elephant: And Other Stories (1988)
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1988)
Dostoevsky: A Screenplay / King Dog : A Screenplay (1988)
Where I'm Calling from: New And Selected Stories (1988)
A New Path to the Waterfall: Poems (poems) (1989)
Three Stories (1990)
Short Cuts: Selected Stories (1990)
No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings, 1958-88 (1991)
Two Short Story Collections: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love ; Cathedral (1994)
All of Us: The Collected Poems (poems) (1996)
Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction And Other Prose (2000)
Collected Stories (2009)
Beginners (2009)
Chapbooks
Plays
Series contributed to
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver (1990) (with Bob Adelman and Tess Gallagher)
Soul Barnacles: On the Literature of a Relationship: Tess Gallagher And Raymond Carver (2000) (with Tess Gallagher)
Soul Barnacles: On the Literature of a Relationship: Tess Gallagher And Raymond Carver (2000) (with Tess Gallagher)
Anthologies containing stories by Raymond Carver
Short stories
| Little Things (1986) |
Books about Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver recommends
Moon Deluxe (1983) Frederick Barthelme "Moon Deluxe is something else entirely - superbly written, and very funny." |
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