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Rachel Carson
[1907-1964]
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“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.”
— Rachel Carson
B I O
t e x t
h e r e
Rachel Carson entry at Wikipedia
Rachel Carson's credits [since 1953] at Internet Movie Database
browse Rachel L. Carson books & audio at Amazon
Primary Works
"Under The Sea Wind" [1941]
"The Edge of The Sea" [Houghton Mifflin, 1955]
 | "The Sea Around Us" [1951 bestseller] by Rachel Carson 86 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list Oxford Univ Press 8x5.3 pb [12/91] for $11.17 Oxford Univ Press hardcover [9/2003] for $31.50 Oscar-winning documentary film [1 hour; RKO 1952] video/DVD not available; credits from IMDb |
 | "Silent Spring" [1962 bestseller] by Rachel Carson on the Time Magazine / Green Century Special Issue August 2002 Recommended Reading List Mariner 8x5½ pb [10/2002] for $11.20 Houghton Mifflin 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/2002] for $16.80 Durkin Hayes ABR audio [3/99] out of print/used DH Audio [1/87] 2 tapes / out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Sense of Wonder" [1956] by Rachel Carson, Photographs by Nick Kelsh, Introduction by Linda Lear
Harper & Row 10¼x7¾ pb [1984] out of print/used Harper & Row 10x8½ pb [1965] out of print/used HarperCollins 11x9 hardcover [4/98] for $17.81 Nature Company 7¾x78½ slipcover edition [1990] out of print/used |
 | "Silent Spring Revisited" [1987] Edited by Gino J. Marco, Robert M. Hollingworth & William Durham Twenty-some years after Rachel Carson's death, the chemical industry both incorporated her views and still sought to defend their products to the public. American Chemical Society 8¾x6¾ pb [8/00] out of print/used American Chemical Society 9x6¼ hardcover [5/87] out of print/used |
Plays, Motion Pictures & Videos
Oscar-winning "The Sea Around Us" documentary film [1 hour; RKO 1952]
video/DVD not available; credits at IMDb
"C.B.S. Reports: The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson" [aired 3 April 1963]
TV special hosted by Eric Sevareid •
credits at IMDb
Works About Rachel Carson
 | "Rachel Carson: Witness For Nature" [1997] by Linda J. Lear Holt/Owl 9¼x6 pb [9/98] out of print/used Henry Holt 9½x6½ hardcover [9/97] out of print/used |
 | "What A Book Can Do: The Publication & Reception of Silent Spring" [2005] by Priscilla Coit Murphy Univ MA Press 9x6 pb [4/2007] for $22.95 Univ MA Press 9x6½ hardcover [5/2005] for $28.6 |
 | "The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and The Rise of The Environmental Movement" [2007] by Mark Hamilton Lytle Oxford Univ Press 6¾x4¾ pb [7/2007] for $13.45 Oxford Univ Press 6¾x5 hardcover [2/2007] out of print/many used |
 | "Courage For The Earth: Writers, Scientists & Activists Celebrate The Life & Writing of Rachel Carson" [2007] Edited by Peter Matthiessen Mariner Books 8x5½ pb [4/2007] for $10.17 |
 | "Up Close: Rachel Carson" [for kids; 2007] by Ellen Levine Puffin 7x5 pb [1/2008] for $6.99 Viking Juvenile 7½x5½ hardcover [4/2007] for $12.47 |
 | "A Sense of Wonder" [indep 2008] Kaiulani Lee wrote and has been performing this one-woman stageplay since 1992, which depicts Rachel Carson's final months battling cancer while defending her book from ruthless chemical industry corporations. Film directed by Christopher Monger; shot in Maine by cinematographer Haskell Wexler P.B.S. Direct color DVD [7/2010] for $22.49 credits at IMDb • official movie site |
"The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson" feature film [Chartoff Prodns release 2011?] 
biopic written by Gail Brice to be directed by Peter Bratt;
latest info at IMDb
Links
Rachel Carson entry at Wikipedia
Rachel Carson's credits [since 1953] at Internet Movie Database
browse Rachel L. Carson books & audio at Amazon
Rachel Carson Institute [Flash only!] at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA
Rachel Carson Homestead Assn. [est. 1975] in Springdale, PA
Silent Spring Institute in Newton, MA
LJL's Rachel Carson website
posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980
listed #39 on The Atlantic Monthly's Top 100 Most Influential Figures in American History [Dec 2006]
listing on Time Magazine's 100 Most Important People of The Century in 2010
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