Carver's high school sweetheart and first wife, Maryann Burk Carver, wrote a memoir of her years with Carver, What it Used to be Like: A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver (2006).
2006-ban Carver első felesége, Maryann Burk Carver megírta emlekiratait a férjével töltött évekről: What It Used To Be Like; A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver.