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Rachel Louise Carson

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Rachel Louise Carson 1907–64, American writer and marine biologist, b. Springdale, Pa., M.A. Johns Hopkins, 1932. Her well-known books on sea life— Under the Sea Wind (1941), The Sea around Us (1951), and The Edge of the Sea (1954)—combine keen scientific observation with rich poetic description. Her Silent Spring (1962), a provocative—and in many places flawed—study of the dangers of certain insecticides, is generally acknowledged as the impetus for the modern environmental movement.

Bibliography: See biographies by J. Harlan (1989), L. Lear (1997), and M. H. Lytle (2007).

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Carson, Rachel (1907–64), zoologist whose sensitive interpretations of scientific data made her books, Under the Sea Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951), and The Edge of the Sea (1955), popular successes. Silent Spring (1963) was also widely read but for more sensational reasons since it describes the potentially dangerous effects of misused insecticides.

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Free newspaper and magazine articles

	Rachel Carson.(Brief Article) Magazine article from: New York State Conservationist; 2/1/2002
	The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England. Magazine article from: Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources; 1/1/2010
	Chartered Accountants Ireland. Magazine article from: Accountancy Ireland; 2/1/2011