The Cobweb | Author Biography
Raymond Carver was born May 25, 1938, to Clevie Raymond Carver and Ella Beatrice Casey in the tiny logging town of Clatskanie, Oregon, population seven hundred. Carver’s parents were working- class poor and often struggled to make ends meet. His father, an alcoholic saw filer in a sawmill, had a nervous breakdown in 1957, the same year that Raymond married sixteen-year-old Maryann Burk and they had their first child. Carver’s adult life eerily mirrored that of his father’s: he drank heavily, worked at a series of menial, low-paying jobs, including one in a sawmill, and moved his...
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