Author

Books by Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson (1907–1964) was an American marine biologist, conservationist, and writer who worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for most of her career. She published three celebrated books about the sea — Under the Sea-Wind, The Sea Around Us, and The Edge of the Sea — before turning to pesticide research for Silent Spring. The Sea Around Us won the National Book Award in 1952. Carson died of breast cancer in 1964, two years after Silent Spring was published. She is widely credited as one of the founders of the modern environmental movement, and Time magazine named her one of the hundred most important people of the twentieth century.