Raymond Carver
Carol Sklenicka is an American biographer, literary scholar, and essayist best known as the author of "Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life", which remains the only comprehensive biography of short story writer Raymond Carver. Ten years later, Sklenicka published her "perceptive, elegantly written" "Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer", a biography of the short-story writer and novelist Alice Adams. "The New York Times Book Review" listed both books on end-of-year best lists; Blake Bailey called Sklenicka a "lucid, scrupulous writer… [who] is prudent and appreciative in her assessment of Adams’s work."