WRITER

Raymond Carver

1938 - 1988

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Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Carver has received more than 2,039,983 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Raymond Carver is the 782nd most popular writer (down from 723rd in 2019), the 877th most popular biography from United States (down from 834th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular American Writer.

Raymond Carver is most famous for his short stories that are often about the lives of working-class people.

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  • 63.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Fires
1983
Cathedral
1983
Will you please be quiet, please?
1976
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Fiction
Stories feature men and women without education, insight, or prospects, who, ironically, are too unimaginative to ever give up
19814 / 5
Where I'm Calling From
Fiction
1988
Elephant and Other Stories
1988

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Raymond Carver ranks 782 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexander Blok, Eleanor Marx, V. S. Naipaul, Demetrius Vikelas, Sinclair Lewis, and Georg Brandes. After him are Tove Ditlevsen, Ibn al-Muqaffa', Menippus, Theodore Beza, Pope Dionysius of Alexandria, and Tao Yuanming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Raymond Carver ranks 49. Before him are Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld, César Luis Menotti, Ahmed Qurei, Jean Giraud, Jiří Menzel, and Alpha Condé. After him are Ayaz Mutallibov, Kurt Wüthrich, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Frederick Forsyth, Issey Miyake, and Lynn Margulis. Among people deceased in 1988, Raymond Carver ranks 19. Before him are Klaus Fuchs, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Trevor Howard, André Frédéric Cournand, Juan Pujol García, and Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad. After him are John Holmes, Kim Philby, Tibor Sekelj, Felix Wankel, Clifford D. Simak, and Virginia Satir.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Raymond Carver ranks 877 out of 20,380. Before him are Vivian Maier (1926), Matthew McConaughey (1969), Jason Robards (1922), Wyatt Earp (1848), John Reed (1887), and Hulk Hogan (1953). After him are Ginger Rogers (1911), Steve Buscemi (1957), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), Linda Hamilton (1956), John L. Hall (1934), and John Clauser (1942).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Raymond Carver ranks 83. Before him are Robert E. Howard (1906), John Dos Passos (1896), Robert Ludlum (1927), Thomas Harris (1940), Neal Cassady (1926), and Sinclair Lewis (1885). After him are Leon Uris (1924), Maya Angelou (1928), Daniel Keyes (1927), Neale Donald Walsch (1943), John Fante (1909), and Ambrose Bierce (1842).

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