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Raymond Carver Raymond Carver An American short-story writer and poet, Raymond Carver’s style of writing was called minimalism. Carver himself did not like the label, “because it ‘smacks of smallness of vision and execution.’” (Stull 8) Raymond Clevie Carver, nicknamed Junior, Frog, and Doc, was born on May 25, 1938, in Clatskanie, a mill town on the Columbia River in Oregon. His father, Clevie Raymond Carver (“C.R.”), rode the rails from Arkansas to Washington state during the dust-bowl days of the 1930’s. C.R., a sawmill worker, was an alcoholic who died at fifty-three. Growing up at home, Carver’s father used to tell him stories about his own hunting and fishing exploits, and about his grandfather, who had fought in the Civil War for both sides. His mother, Ella Casey Carver, supplemented the family income by working as a waitress and retail clerk. When Raymond was three, the family moved to Yakima, Washington, a town of twenty thousand near the Cascades, where he grew up. Carver went to a local school in Yakima, and graduated in 1956. He was a fan of Mickey Spillane novels and Sports Afield and Outdoor Life. carver, raymond, life, stories, writing, story, man, meyer, carver’s, about, wife, own, first, blind, years, writer, during, worked, over, marriage, became, working, while, two, things, tess, style, short, robert, once, moved, lived, cathedral, been, american