Carver, Raymond (1938–1988)

US short-story writer and poet. His writing deals mainly with blue-collar middle America, depicting failed, empty lives in a spare prose. His major works include Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (1976), What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), Cathedral (1983), and In a Marine Light (1988), a collection of poetry.

A collection of previously unpublished short stories and pieces of non-fiction were published posthumously in 2000 under the title Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Prose, edited by William L Stull.