RAYMOND CARVER was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first
collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National
Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About
When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer
Prize in 1984), and Where I'm Calling From in 1988, when he was
inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died
August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to
the Waterfall.
WILLIAM L. STULL is a professor of English at the University of
Hartford. Maureen P. Carroll is an adjunct professor of humanities
at the University of Hartford and a practicing attorney. For more
than two decades, they have published numerous essays and books on
the work of Raymond Carver.
“One of the great short story writers of our time—of any time.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty.... His
eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart.” —The Washington Post
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