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About Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson was born May 27, 1907, on a farm in Springdale, Pennsylvania.
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Rachel’s mother encouraged her interests in nature and in writing. Her first published story “A Battle in the Clouds” appeared in St. Nicholas magazine when she was in fourth grade.
At Pennsylvania College for Women (later Chatham College) Rachel switched her major from English to biology when inspired by an outstanding biology teacher.
She graduated magna cum laude and was awarded a full scholarship that enabled her to attain a master’s degree in marine zoology from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
The subsequent death of her father brought increased responsibility for her family and caused a period of financial struggle that ended when she was employed as a writer/editor and finally Editor-in-Chief for the U.S.
Department of Fish and Wildlife’s publications department.
Under the Sea Wind, her first book, published in November of