With a unique and brilliant writing style, Raymond Carver left a lasting and exceptional impact on the history of short stories. Although Raymond Carver left a lasting mark, his life was quite the opposite. As in Raymond Carver's famous, award-winning stories, his life was short. Raymond Carver was born on May 25, 1938, in Clatskanie, Oregon, an industrial town on the Columbia River. Carver grew up in Yakima, Washington. Carver had three members in his little family: his mother, his father and his brother. Carver had only one sibling, his younger brother, James Franklin Carver. Carver's mother worked as a waitress and retail clerk, while Carver's father worked as a fisherman and sawmill worker. Many say Carver's father was not only a skilled sawmill worker and fisherman. Many would say that Carver's father was also an alcoholic. Since Carver grew up in a family with an alcoholic father, he was exposed to a sense of dirty realism in the world. This exposure early in Carver's life is most likely an important factor in his writing style that he would develop into later in his life, as a writer. (King) Carver began his educational career in Yakima, Washington, where he attended school until 1956. Carver always loved reading and writing. Whenever he had free time, Carver read many Mickey Spillane novels and publications. Carver also enjoyed fishing and hunting with his friends and family. After graduating from high school in 1956, Carver worked with his father as a laborer in a sawmill. Carver married a girl named Maryann Burk, who was sixteen at the time. Carver was nineteen when he married, his early marriage ending his writing career. A year after their marriage... middle of paper ......MD: Lexington, 2010. Print. "Biography" Magill's Survey of American Literature, revised edition Ed. Steven G. Kellman. Salem Press, Inc. 2006eNotes.com March 24, 2014Driscoll, Scott. “A past life in love with Raymond Carver is captured in the intimate moments of Memoir.” Seattlepi.com. Hearst Seattle Media, LLC, July 20, 2006. Web. March 30, 2014. King, Stephen (November 22, 2009). "The Life and Stories of Raymond Carver". The New York Times. “A Review of a Raymond Carver Writer's Life” by Carol Sklenicka and Raymond Carver Collected Stories edited by William L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll “Raymond Carver. » 2012. FamousAuthors.org March 4 SparkNotes Publishers. “SparkNote on the cathedral. » SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC 2007. Web. March 5, 2014. Stull, William L. “Prose as Architecture: Two Interviews with Raymond Carver Inc.,” September 25.. 2005