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Rachel Louise Carson 1907–64, American writer and marine biologist, b. Springdale, Pa., M.A. Johns Hopkins, 1932. Her well-known books on sea life : Under the Sea Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951), and The Edge of the Sea (1954) : combine keen scientific observation with rich poetic description. Her Silent Spring (1962), a provocative study of the dangers of certain insecticides, is generally acknowledged as the impetus for the modern environmental movement.
See biographies by J. Harlan (1989) and L. Lear (1997).
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