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Abstract etween 1976 and 1988, Raymond Carver ~hed ten books of poetry and prose, as well umerous chapbooks and limited editions, and leventh book - another collection of poems - ared the year after he died. He was the rent of a number of awards, including three ;Henry awards, a 1979 National Endowment ithe Arts Award, nominations for the pulitzer .e, a National Book Critics Circle Award, the tigious Mildred and Harold Strauss Living rd, Poetry Magazine’s Levinson Prize, an orary doctorate of Letters from Hartford Unisity, and a Brandeis Citation in fiction. The nature of Carver’s success and his meric rise to international acclaim, seems all the re extraordinary when one considers his inspicious beginnings. Born in 1938 in the small II town of Clastkanie, Oregon, he was as a ung man expected to take his high school dima and work at the sawmill with his father, a rd drinking laborer who had migrated to the acific Northwest from Arkansas. Carver married hortly after his nineteenth birthday, and had two hildren within the first eighteen months of his arriage. In 1958, he moved south to California nd enrolled at Chico State College. where he tudied writing under John Gardner, and, pressed |