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Rachel Louise Carson
Born: May 27, in Springdale, Pennsylvania Died: April 14, in Silver Spring, Maryland
Rachel Carson, writer, scientist, and ecologist, grew up simply in the rural river town of Springdale, Pennsylvania.
Her mother bequeathed to her a life-long love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology.
Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) in , studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in
She was hired by the U.S.
Bureau of Fisheries to write radio scripts during the Depression and supplemented her income writing feature articles on natural history for the Baltimore Sun. She began a fifteen-year career in the federal service as a scientist and editor in and rose to become Editor-in-Chief of all publications for the U.
S. Fish and Wildlife Service.