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Raymond Carver Jr. ... He was the first of two sons born to Ella Beatrice Casey and Clevie Raymond Carver, a working-class couple. When Raymond was only three, he and his family left Oregon to move to Yakima, Washington. ...
A year later in 1957, at the age of 19, Raymond’s father suffered a mental and physical breakdown. ... Raymond worked and attended Yakima Community college part time. ... At this time Raymond was now enrolled part time at Chico State College. Not long after that he took creative writing there; this class inspired him to become a poet and a short story writer.
At the end of Raymond’s final semester at Chico State in 1960 he transferred to Humboldt State University. ...
1967 wasn’t a good year, the Carvers filed for bankruptcy and Raymond’s father died on June 17. One year later, Raymond started to drink heavily (Gray). In 1970, he received an award for poetry, his short story Sixty Acres was included in a magazine, and his first book Winter Insomnia was published.
When Raymond was 33, he was appointed as a visiting lecturer in creative writing at several universities. ... They began to have problems because of the back and forth life Raymond led and because his wife had also became a heavy drinker. ... Raymond, his wife, and children moved to Cupertino, California. Raymond was hospitalized and treated four different times for acute alcoholism (Richardson). On June 2, 1977, while living alone in McKinleyville, California, Raymond finally put down the bottle for good. His wife moved back in with him but never showed up to meet up with Raymond in El Paso, Texas, where he had purchased a new three bedroom home.
Approximate Word count = 1385
Approximate Pages = 5.5
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