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(1938-1988) Fiction writer, poet. Raymond Carver was a Guggenheim fellow in 1979, twice awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1983, Carver received the prestigious Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award which gave him $35,000 per year tax free and required that he give up any employment other than writing, and in 1985 Poetry magazines Levinson prize. In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He received an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Hartford, and the Brandeis citation for fiction in 1988.
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Raymond Carver
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Onondaga
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