Rachel Carson
Hello, my name is Rachel Lousie Carson. I was born on a farm in Springdale,Pennsylvania on May 27, 1907. My mother, Maria McLean Carson was a dedicatedteacher and throughout my childhood she encouraged my interests in nature and inwriting. She also encouraged me to publish my first story A Battle in the Clouds in the St.Nicholas magazine while I was in fourth grade.After graduating from Parnassus High School, I enrolled into the PennsylvaniaCollege for Women. I majored in English and continued to write but I also had to taketwo semesters of science, which changed my life. In my junior year I changed my major tozoology, even though science was not considered an appropriate avenue for women. After graduating college in 1928 I had earned a full one year scholarship to JohnsHopkins University in Baltimore. This scholarship did not relieve me or my family of ourfinancial burdens, so I worked throughout graduate school in the genetics departmentassisting Dr. Raymond Pearl and Dr. H.S. Jennings and I worked as an assistant teacher inthe zoology department at the University of Maryland. In 1932 I received my masters inmarine zoology. I continued working part-time as a teacher after gr
" I won the George WestinghouseScience Writing Award for one chapter of that book entitled "The Birth of an Island. My second book The Sea Around Us written in 1950 was "a book for anyonewho has looked out upon the ocean with wonder. I received a letter from Olga Owens Huckins in 1958 which inspired me to writemy fourth book Silent Spring which I completed in 1962. It was not an easy climb though; my close friend andassociate Bob Hines once said I was an able executive with almost a man's administrativequalities. In her letter she told me she washorrified to find birds dead and dying throughout her property. This bookremained on the best sellers list for twenty-three weeks. I had longsuspected the dangers posed by the use of DDT. In 1936, my sisterMarion passed away at the age of forty leaving behind two young daughters, and mymother encouraged me to take them in. Under the Sea Wind debuted in 1941 to critical acclaim in both literary andscientific circles but sales plummeted with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. aduating to helpsupport my family through the early years of the Depression. That same year I took the civil serviceexamination necessary for promotion to full-time junior aquatic biologist. A few days earlier localagencies conducted massive, unannounced spraying of the pesticide DDT. " The book itself remained on the New York Times bestseller list for eighty-one weeks. In 1935 my father had aheart attack and passed away leaving me to provide for my mother.
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