About the Author

RACHEL CARSON, 1907-1964, spent a good deal of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Her first three books -- Under the Sea-Wind, The Sea Around Us, and The Edge of the Sea -- established her reputation as a first-rate writer on the natural world.

Reviews

"Rachel Carson is a pivotal figure of the twentieth century...people who thought one way before her essential 1962 book Silent Spring thought another way after it." -- Margaret Atwood"Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters." -- Peter Matthiessen, for Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Century