ABSTRACT
Raymond Carver (1938-1988) was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression of the 1930s in the United States. Rejecting the more experimental fiction of the 1960s and 1970s, he pioneered a reinvention of the American short story during the 1980s. As well as being a master of the short story, he was an accomplished poet, publishing several highly acclaimed volumes.
