Rachel Carson

Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) na she be American marine biologist, writer, den conservationist wey ein sea trilogy (1941–1955) den book Silent Spring (1962) be credited plus advancing marine conservation den de global environmental movement.

Carson begin ein career as an aquatic biologist insyd de U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, wey she cam turn a full-time nature writer insyd de 1950s. Na ein widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us win am a U.S. National Book Award,"National Book Awards—1952". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 19, 2012.

(With acceptance speech by Carson and essay by Neil Baldwin from the Awards 50th-anniversary publications.) recognition as a gifted writer den financial security. Na ein success prompt de republication of ein first book, Under the Sea Wind (1941), insyd 1952, wich na be followed by The Edge of the Sea insyd 1955 — na both sanso be bestsellers. Dis sea trilogy dey explore de whole of ocean life from de shores to de depths.

 Early life den education 
Na dem born Carson for May 27, 1907, on a family farm near Springdale, Pennsylvania, wey dey locate by de Allegheny River near Pittsburgh. Na she be de daughter of Maria Frazier (McLean) den Robert Warden Carson, an insurance salesman.

 Death 
Na she be weaken from breast cancer den ein treatment regimen, Carson cam turn ill plus a respiratory virus insyd January 1964. Na ein condition worsen, den insyd February, na doctors find dat na she get severe anemia from ein radiation treatments. Insyd March, na dem discover dat de cancer reach ein liver. She die of a heart attack for April 14, 1964, insyd ein home insyd Silver Spring, Maryland.

Na dem cremate ein body, wey na dem bury sam of ein ashes besyd ein mommie for Parklawn Memorial Gardens insyd Rockville, Maryland.Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 7513–7514). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition. Na dem scatter along de coast of Squirrel Island near Sheepscot River insyd Maine.

 List of works 

 Under the Sea Wind, 1941, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group, 1996, 







  (with Vanez T. Wilson)
 The Sea Around Us, Oxford University Press, 1951; Oxford University Press, 1991, 
 The Edge of the Sea, Houghton Mifflin 1955; Mariner Books, 1998, 
 Silent Spring, Houghton Mifflin, 1962; Mariner Books, 2002, 
 Silent Spring initially appeared serialized in three parts in the June 16, June 23, and June 30, 1962, issues of The New Yorker magazine
 The Sense of Wonder, 1965, HarperCollins, 1998:  published posthumously
 Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman 1952–1964 An Intimate Portrait of a Remarkable Friendship, Beacon Press, 1995,  edited by Martha Freeman (granddaughter of Dorothy Freeman)
 Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson, Beacon Press, 1998, 
 Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology, edited by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores, Trinity University Press, 2006, 

 References 

 Works dem cite 





Read further

 Brinkley, Douglas. Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening (2022) excerpt
  This book is a personal memoir by Carson's Houghton Mifflin editor and close friend Paul Brooks. Brooks' papers are housed at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods Library.



 Lepore, Jill, "The Shore Bird: Rachel Carson and the rising of the seas", The New Yorker, 26 March 2018, pp. 64–66, 68–72.









 External links 

 American Experience documentary about Rachel Carson
 A Sense of Wonder : 2010 PBS Documentary / Interviews with Rachel Carson
 Rachel Carson Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
 New York Times obituary
 RachelCarson.org—Web site by Carson biographer Linda J. Lear
 Time, Mar. 29, 1999, Environmentalist RACHEL CARSON
 Koehn, Nancy, "From Calm Leadership, Lasting Change", The New York Times, October 27, 2012.
 Revisiting Rachel Carson—Bill Moyer's Journal, PBS.org, September 21, 2007
 A Sense of Wonder—a two-act play about Carson, written and performed by Kaiulani Lee, based on posthumous work of the same name
 "Why Our Winters Are Getting Warmer," November 1951, Popular Science—early article by Rachel Carson about how the ocean's currents affect climate (excerpt from her 1951 book, The Sea Around Us).
 (Rachel L. Carson as Interpreted by Irwin Allen—TCM Movie Morlocks on The Sea Around Us)
 Silent Spring, A Visual History curated by the Michigan State University Museum
 Michals, Debra. "Rachel Carson". National Women's History Museum. 2015.
 "For the Birds," episode 6 of The Last Archive podcast by Jill Lepore, released July 9, 2020.
"Roundtable Discussion of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson," 1962-00-00, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 7, 2021.

Carson-related organizations
 The Rachel Carson Homestead
 Silent Spring Institute
 Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy
 Rachel Carson Institute Archived 2009-06-21 at the Wayback Machine


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