![]() He attended a creative-writing course, and was taught by John Gardner. In 1959 he moved from Oregon to Paradise, California, where he became interested in writing. Maryann worked for the telephone company. After finishing high school Carver supported his family by working as a janitor, gas-station attendant, and deliveryman. She was eighteen when her second child was born. In 1957, at the age of 19, he married his high-school girlfriend, the sixteen-year-old Maryann Burk, who was pregnant and just graduated from an Episcopalian private school for girls. Carver read mostly Mickey Spillane's novels, or Sports Afield and Outdoor Life. At home his father used to tell him stories about his grandfather, who had fought in the Civil War, for both sides. Carver was educated at a local school in Yakima, Washington. His father was a sawmill worker, a violent alcoholic, and mother worked as a waitress or as a retail clerk or else stayed home. Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, a mill town on the Columbia River in Oregon. ![]() 'I love the swift leap of a good story, the excitement that often commences in the first sentence, the sense of beauty and mystery found in the best of them and the fact - so crucially important to me back at the beginning and now still a consideration - that the story can be written and read in one sitting.
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