Rachel Carson Rachel Carson, 1907-1964, spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Her first three books - especially the best selling The Sea Around Us - established her reputation as a first-rate writer, but she undertook the writing of Silent Spring with some reluctance, feeling that others were better qualified to investigate the ...

Go to Chapter One Section Go to Book World's Review Rachel Carson Witness for Nature By Linda Lear Chapter One: Wild Creatures Are My Friends Most of all, it was her determination that set her apart. As a child, Rachel Louise Carson decided that she would be a writer. Literary talent, perhaps genius, and a hard-driving intelligence brought her that. But at the base of it, there was a ferocious ...