Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Reading Rachel Carson's books, one has the feeling that she is forever embarked on a voyage of discovery. As a professional writer she uses words to reveal the poetry which is to say the essential truth and meaning - at the core of any scientific fact. As a trained scientist she has never lost the poet's sense of wonder. The interests she was later to combine so successfully were foreshadowed even in early childhood the desire to write and an abiding love of the world of nature. In college she specialized in English composition, then, coming under the spell of biology, she took her degree in that subject and continued in graduate work at Johns Hopkins University, where she studied genetics and development under H. S. Jennings and worked in the laboratories of geneticist Raymond Pearl. From 1936 until 1952 she was on the staff of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a biologist and editor. Meanwhile, her own literary career had begun: an article in the Atlantic led to her first book, Under the Sea-Wind (1941). Ten years later came The Sea Around Us. Between one spring tide and the next, she had become world famous. The book was on the best-seller lists for 86 weeks and was eventually translated into 30 languages. Among other honors, Miss Carson was awarded the Gold Medal of the New York Zoological Society, the John Burroughs Medal, the Gold Medal of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, and the National Book Award for non- fiction. She became a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On resigning from government service to give full time to writing she received the Interior Department's Distinguished Service Award. Under a Guggenheim Fellowship she then began studies of offshore life which led to The Edge of the Sea in 1955. In all her work Rachel Carson's basic interest has been the relation of life to its environment. Since 1958 she has collected data from scientists all over the world about the dangerous effects of deadly poisons, especially in the form of synthetic insecticides, on the living community. The result is Silent Spring a courageous revelation of the forces that modern man has brought into being in his ruthless war on life, an eloquent protest in behalf of the unity of all nature, a protest in behalf of life.
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