Rachel L. Carson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Rachel L. Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a writer, known for The Sea Around Us (1953), A Sense of Wonder (2008) and CBS Reports (1959). She died on April 14, 1964 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
April 14, 1964, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Place Of Birth
Springdale, Pennsylvania, USA
Profession
Writer
Education
Johns Hopkins University, Chatham University
Nationality
American
Parents
Maria Frazier McLean, Robert Warden Carson
Awards
Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Book Award for Nonfiction, Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
Star Sign
Gemini
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Quote
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Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. [on the effect of chemical insecticides and fertilizers, 1962]
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Fact
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Won a National Book Award in 1952 for her non-fiction book "The Sea Around Us."
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"Silent Spring" is her most famous book (which argued against the use of pesticides).
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Writer, scientist and ecologist.
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Charter member of the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Sense of Wonder
2008
Video based on the life and writings of - as Rachel Carson
The Sea Around Us
1953
Documentary based on the book by - as Rachel Carson
$11 Million
