![]() Carver struggled with alcoholism throughout most of his adult life, until he quit drinking in the late 1970s. He also wrote poems, many of which appear in the collection A New Path to the Waterfall. Carver’s writing tends to focus on working-class and lower-middle class people, featuring characters who worked low-paying jobs and encounter the mundane difficulties in American life. Carver eventually released the short story collections Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and Cathedral. He then attended the prestigious Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Carver attended Chico State University and later Humboldt State College, from which he received his BA in 1963. Carver and his wife worked a variety of low-paying jobs to support their family, which gave Carver insight on working class life. ![]() ![]() The couple had two children by the time Carver was 20. In 1957, when he was 19, he married 16-year-old Maryann Burk. Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, before his family moved to Yakima, Washington. ![]()
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