Rachel Carson
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![Carson's childhood home is now preserved as the Rachel Carson Homestead (photo taken November 7, 2009)](/Images/godic/202501/03/RachelCarsonHomestead1250.jpg")
![Rachel Carson and Bob Hines conducting research off the Atlantic coast in 1952](/Images/godic/202501/03/Rachel_Carson_Conducts_Marine_Biology_Research_with_Bob_Hines1250.jpg")
![The Book-of-the-Month Club edition of Silent Spring, including an endorsement by Justice Douglas, had a first print run of 150,000 copies, two-and-a-half times the combined size of the two conventional printings of the initial release.[58]](/Images/godic/202501/03/Silent_Spring_Book-of-the-Month-Club_edition1250.JPG")
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award, recognition as a gifted writer, and financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. This sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life from the shores to the depths.