Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

human

Ein sex anaa gender	female
Ein country of citizenship	United States
Name in native language	Rachel Louise Carson
Name wey dem give am	Rachel, Louise
Family name	Carson
Ein date of birth	27 May 1907
Place dem born am	Rachel Carson Homestead
Date wey edie	14 April 1964
Place wey edie	Silver Spring
Manner of death	natural causes
Cause of death	breast cancer, myocardial infarction
Place wey dem bury am	Parklawn Memorial Park
Spouse	no value
Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign	English
Writing language	English
Ein field of work	biology, marine biology, conservation, essay
Employer	United States Fish and Wildlife Service, University of Maryland
Educate for	Chatham University, Johns Hopkins University
Residence	Silver Spring, Rachel Carson House
Lifestyle	vegetarianism
Notable work	Silent Spring, The Sea Around Us, The Edge of the Sea
Dey archive for	Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Member of	American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Influenced by	Aldo Leopold
Dem nominate for	National Book Award for Nonfiction, National Book Award for Nonfiction, National Book Award for Nonfiction
Dema official website	http://www.rachelcarson.org

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, 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

Carson ein kiddie time home, de Rachel Carson Homestead, insyd Springdale, Pennsylvania, insyd November 2009

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. 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, ISBN 0-14-025380-7
• "Food From the Sea: Fish and Shellfish of New England" (PDF). Us Fish & Wildlife Publications. United States Government Printing Office. 1943.
• Carson, Rachel (1943). "Food From Home Waters: Fishes of the Middle West" (PDF). Us Fish & Wildlife Publications. United States Government Printing Office.
• "Fish and Shellfish of the South Atlantic and Gulf Coasts" (PDF). Us Fish & Wildlife Publications. United States Government Printing Office. 1944.
• Carson, Rachel (1945). "Fish and Shellfish of the Middle Atlantic Coast" (PDF). Us Fish & Wildlife Publications. United States Government Printing Office.
• Carson, Rachel (1947). "Chincoteague: A National Wildlife Refuge" (PDF). Us Fish & Wildlife Publications. United States Government Printing Office.
• Carson, Rachel (1947). "Mattamuskeet: A National Wildlife Refuge" (PDF). Us Fish & Wildlife Publications. United States Government Printing Office.
• Carson, Rachel (1947). "Parker River: A National Wildlife Refuge" (PDF). Us Fish & Wildlife Publications. United States Government Printing Office.
• Wilson, Vanez; Carson, Rachel (1950). "Bear River: A National Wildlife Refuge" (PDF). Us Fish & Wildlife Publications. United States Government Printing Office. (with Vanez T. Wilson)
• The Sea Around Us, Oxford University Press, 1951; Oxford University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-19-506997-8
• The Edge of the Sea, Houghton Mifflin 1955; Mariner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-395-92496-0
• Silent Spring, Houghton Mifflin, 1962; Mariner Books, 2002, ISBN 0-618-24906-0
  • 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: ISBN 0-06-757520-X published posthumously
• Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman 1952–1964 An Intimate Portrait of a Remarkable Friendship, Beacon Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8070-7010-6 edited by Martha Freeman (granddaughter of Dorothy Freeman)
• Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson, Beacon Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8070-8547-2
• Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology, edited by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, and Judith E. Moores, Trinity University Press, 2006, ISBN 1-59534-022-X

References

Works dem cite

• Carson, Rachel (1962). Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin.
• Hynes, H. Patricia (1989). The Recurring Silent Spring. Athene series. New York: Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-08-037117-5.
• Lear, Linda (1997). Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-3428-5.
• Lytle, Mark Hamilton (2007). The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517246-1.
• Murphy, Priscilla Coit (2005). What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-55849-582-1.

Read further

• Brinkley, Douglas. Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening (2022) excerpt
• Brooks, Paul (1972). The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-13517-6. 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.
• Gottlieb, Robert (2005). Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington D.C.: Island Press. ISBN 978-1-55963-832-6.
• Jezer, Marty (1988). Rachel Carson: Biologist and Author. American women of achievement. Chelsea House Publications. ISBN 1-55546-646-X.
• Kline, Benjamin (2011). First Along the River. Maryland. Rowman & Littlefield.
• Lepore, Jill, "The Shore Bird: Rachel Carson and the rising of the seas", The New Yorker, 26 March 2018, pp. 64–66, 68–72.
• Lutts, R (1985). Chemical fallout: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Radioactive Fallout, and the Environmental Movement. Environmental Review.
• Matthiessen, Peter, ed. (2007). Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson. Mariner Books. ISBN 978-0-618-87276-3.
• Moore, Kathleen Dean; Sideris, Lisa H. (2008). Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge. Albany, New York: SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7471-6.
• Quaratiello, Arlene (2010). Rachel Carson: A Biography. Amherst, New York: Prometheus. ISBN 978-1-61614-187-5.
• Sideris, Lisa H. (Fall–Winter 2009). "Fact and Fiction, Fear and Wonder: The Legacy of Rachel Carson". Soundings. 91 (3–4): 335–69. JSTOR 41179228.
• Souder, William (2012). On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson. New York, NY: Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-307-46220-6.
• Collombat, Isabelle (2021). Rachel Carson : "Non à la destruction de la nature" (in French). Actes Sud junior. ISBN 978-2-330-15053-2. Archived from the original on 2023-01-29. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
• Collombat, Isabelle (2023). Rachel Carson - Le monde doit savoir (in French). Albin Michel Jeunesse. p. 432. ISBN 9782226471611. Retrieved 2023-05-24.

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