In a 1983 interview for Paris Review, he told Mona Simpson and Lewis Buzbee, “If I’ve ever gone about consciously locating a story in a particular place.I suppose that place would be the Pacific Northwest.”Ĭarver’s adolescence in Yakima is well-documented in his writing: the joy he took in fishing, his job delivering prescriptions, his deep attachment to Maryann Burk, whom he met at the Spudnut Shop when she was fourteen and married two years later. In addition to the sixteen years with his parents in Yakima, he maintained a home in Port Angeles, Washington, for the last six years of his life. Though Carver never again lived in Oregon, he had deep emotional ties to the Pacific Northwest. Carver moved his family to Yakima, Washington, where he worked as a saw filer at the Cascade mill. At the time of his birth, they were living in Wauna, a lumber company town of 700 people, twelve miles west of Clatskanie, on the Oregon side of the lower Columbia River. and Ella Carver, Depression-era migrants from Arkansas. Raymond Clevie Carver was born in Oregon on May 25, 1938, the son of C.R.
In his stories, and also his poems and essays, Carver recorded with poignancy and humor the financial and emotional bankruptcies that beset the working poor.
Raymond Carver was America’s preeminent short story-writer during the 1970s and 1980s, a time that witnessed a great renaissance of the art of the story.
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