Rachel Carson is known primarily as the author of Silent Spring, a 1962 book that introduced readers to the hazards of pesticide abuse, shifting the focus of environmental writing by addressing dangers posed to the natural world by human technology....

Rachel Carson is best remembered for her groundbreaking book Silent Spring, which first brought to public attention the environmental damage caused by chemical fertilizers and such pesticides as DDT and spurred legislative efforts to clean the...

Rachel Carson was a university-trained biologist, a longtime United States government employee, and a best-selling author of such books as Edge of the Sea, The Sea Around Us (a National Book Award winner), and Silent Spring. Her book on the dangers of...

Published in 1962, Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, sent shock waves through communities because it exposed the dangers of unregulated pesticide use. After the insecticidal properties of DDT (dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane) were discovered in...

Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) was an American biologist and writer whose book Silent Spring aroused an apathetic public to the dangers of chemical pesticides. Rachel Carson was born May 27, 1907, in Springdale, Pa. A solitary child, she spent long...