Raymond Carver (1938-1988), a famous contemporary American short story writer and poet, is a representative writer of American "minimalism" and is known as the founder of "New Novel". Born on May 25, 1938 in Claskanie, Oregon. He died of lung cancer on August 2, 1988. After graduating from high school, he struggled to make a living while supporting his family and studying writing in his spare time. The first half of Carver's life was full of suffering and disappointment. Unemployment, alcoholism, bankruptcy, separation of wives and children, abandonment of friends, and falling to the bottom of life. In his later years, his literary reputation gradually increased, but he suffered from lung cancer and died young at the age of fifty. Carver's work style is closely related to his own experience, concise and cold. He does not write with genius, but with painstaking efforts. Carver's life works were mainly short stories and poems. His representative works include "Can You Please Be Quiet?" ", "What do we say when we talk about love", "Cathedral", "Who's Calling", etc.