To call myself beloved," from his poem "Late Fragment."
The inscription on this man's grave includes the lines "And what did you want? To call myself beloved," from his poem "Late Fragment." He wrote about a woman's reaction to a girl's murder in "So Much Water So Close to Home," which was turned into the film Jindabyne, while the film Short Cuts adapts nine of this man's stories. FTP, name this minimalist, "dirty realist" author whose story collections include Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and Cathedral.
The inscription on this man's grave includes the lines "And what did you want?
Raymond Carver