![]() ![]() Carver died of lung cancer at age 50 in 1988. Carver also wrote poetry and published three collections of his verse from 1976 through 1986. Over the course of the 1980s, he published three collections of short stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), the Pulitzer Prize finalist Cathedral (1983), and Where I’m Calling From (1988). ![]() Cathedral The narrator notes that his wife’s friend, a blind man named Robert, is coming to spend the night after visiting his late wife’s family in Connecticut. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. By the late 1970s, Carver was able to get a handle on his disease and then took teaching appointments at the University of Texas at El Paso and Syracuse. The timeline below shows where the character Robert appears in Cathedral. From 1967 through the late 1970s, Carver battled alcoholism and was hospitalized multiple times. A few of Carver’s stories were published by magazines but it was not until 1976 that his work was first published in a book-length collection called Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? The book was a finalist for the 1977 National Book Award in fiction. Carver continued to work on his short fiction while studying at California’s Humboldt State University, from which he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1963. Carver did not begin writing seriously until 1958, when he took a college creative writing course taught by the celebrated mid-century writer John Gardner. The son of a sawmill worker, Raymond Carver graduated from high school and worked a number of blue-collar jobs (janitor, gas-station attendant, delivery man) to support his wife and children. ![]()
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