William Souder at The Loft in Minneapolis Monday night to launch his new book about Rachel Carson. Fifty years after her famous book "Silent Spring" -- and 48 years after her death from breast cancer ...

Rachel Louise Carson was born on a family farm in Springdale, Pa. on May 27, 1907. After obtaining a master’s degree in zoology from Johns Hopkins in 1932, Carson taught there and at the University of ...

Biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964), an outspoken forerunner of the environmental movement and author of the National Book Award-winning The Sea Around Us (1951), is best known for her groundbreaking, ...

In her introduction to the 40th-anniversary edition of Silent Spring, biographer and historian Linda Lear, author of the acclaimed biography Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature notes, "Carson was ...

"The 'control of Nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that Nature exists for the convenience of man. The concepts and ...