Raymond Carver biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Raymond Carver

Author Name:

Raymond Carver

Born As:

Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr.

Other Names:

Born:

25 May 1938

Died:

02 Aug 1988




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Short story writer and poet                          
Selected Works:

Collections:

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? - 1976
Furious Seasons - 1977
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - 1981
Cathedral - 1983
Elephant - 1988

Compilations:

Where I'm Calling From - 1988
Short Cuts: Selected Stories - 1993 - published to accompany Robert Altman film Short Cuts
Collected Stories - 2009 - complete short fiction including Beginners

Poetry: Collections

Near Klamath - 1968
Winter Insomnia - 1970
At Night The Salmon Move - 1976
Fires - 1983
Where Water Comes Together With Other Water - 1985
Ultramarine - 1986
A New Path To The Waterfall - 1989

Poetry: Compilations
In a Marine Light: Selected Poems - 1988
All of Us: The Collected Poems - 1996

Screenplays:
Dostoevsky - 1985, with Tess Gallagher

Films and Theatre Adaptations:

Short Cuts - Director Robert Altman
Everything Goes - Director Andrew Kotatko
Jindabyne - based on So Much Water So Close to Home - Director Ray Lawrence
Everything Must Go - Director Dan Rush, starring Will Ferrell
What's in Alaska? - Director Jim Fields

Carver - Director William Gaskill at London's Arcola Theatre in 1995, adapted from five Carver short stories including What's in Alaska, Put Yourself in My Shoes and Intimacy
Studentova žena - Croatian - Director Goran Kovač, based on "The Student's Wife."
After the Denim - Director Gregory D. Goyins.

Music:

The 1989 album So Much Water So Close to Home by Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly, includes a track "Everything's Turning to White" which is a re-telling of Carver's story So Much Water So Close to Home.

The 2004 EP by Owen includes a song titled Gazebo, named after Carver's short story. The song mentions Carver's name, and also quotes the final line of Gazebo; "In this too, she was right."

The 2005 album Pocket Revolution by dEUS includes a song titled "What We Talk About - When We Talk About Love".