Rachel Louise Carson
Quiet, reserved, and very private, Silent Spring ’s author was no radical rabble-rouser. Carson was born on 27 May 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. From an early age she aspired to be a writer but at college she switched her major from English to biology. Carson earned a masters’ degree in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932 but interrupted her doctoral studies due to financial problems during the Great Depression. She took a job as a biologist with the US Bureau of Fisheries—later the US Fish and Wildlife Service—and wrote and edited informational materials for the public.
Yet Silent Spring also galvanized conservationists, ecologists, biologists, social critics, reformers, and organic farmers to join in the American environmental movement. Carson’s sensational best seller helped transform and broaden the older conservation movement into more comprehensive and ecologically informed environmentalism. Moreover, through dozens of translations, Silent Spring affected events abroad and prepared the way for the rise of environmental and Green movements worldwide.
Rachel Louise Carson was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania on May 27, 1907. She grew up on a large farm where she learned about nature and animals. Rachel loved to read and write stories as a child. She even had a story published when she was only eleven years old. One of Rachel's favorite subjects was the ocean Carson, Rachel Louise.” Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2003. encarta.msn.com Women in History. Rachel Carson biography.” Lakewood Public Library. www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/cars-rac National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Rachel Carson was also a Marine Biologist and one of the first women hired by the US Bureau of Fisheries. Rachel Carson.” www.sjsu.edu/depts/Museum/cars Rachel Carson.” library.thinkquest.org Where was Rachael Carson buried?
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