Biography

Rachel L. Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a writer, known for The Sea Around Us (1953), Omnibus (1952) and The Sense of Wonder (2001). She died on April 14, 1964 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.

"Silent Spring" is her most famous book (which argued against the use of pesticides).

Won a National Book Award in 1952 for her non-fiction book "The Sea Around Us."

Charter member of the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973.

Writer, scientist and ecologist.

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. [on the effect of chemical insecticides and fertilizers, 1962]