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Biography of Rachel Louise Carson
Name: Rachel Louise Carson
Birth Date: May 27, 1907
Death Date: April 14, 1964
Place of Birth: Springdale, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: biologist, writer
Rachel Louise Carson
Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) was an American biologist and writer whose book Silent Spring aroused an apathetic public to the dangers of chemical pesticides.Rachel Carson was born May 27, 1907, in Springdale, Pa. A solitary child, she spent long hours learning of field, pond, and forest from her mother. At college she studied creative writing and in 1932 obtained a master's degree in biology from the Johns Hopkins University. She did postgraduate studies at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.In 1936, Carson served as an aquatic biologist with the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries. After her first book, Under the Sea Wind (1941), she soon became editor in chief of the Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. In 1951 The Sea around Us brought its author instant fame. At the top of the best-seller list for 39 weeks, it was translated into 30 languages. For it, the shy, soft-spoken Carson received the National …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…limitations on spraying programs and an accelerated research effort to develop natural, biological controls for harmful insects.The pesticide industry reacted with a massive campaign to discredit Carson and her findings. Firmly and gently, she spent the next 2 years educating the public at large: "I think we are challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves." She died on April, 14, 1964, at Silver Spring, Md. Further Reading The very first biography of Carson is Linda Leer's, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (1997). Another authoritative book on Rachel Carson and the pesticide issue is Frank Graham, Since Silent Spring (1970). The references in the back of the book are recommended for up-to-date information on pesticides, their use, and control. A collection of Carson's unpublished writings was published in 1998 titled Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson, edited by Linda Lear.
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