She was an award-winning author of two best-selling books about the ocean--The Sea Around Us, published in 1951, and The Edge of the Sea, which was published four years later. When Rachel Carson ...

Rachel Carson is the author of the best-seller “Silent Spring” and “The Sea Around Us,” which won the National Book Award for nonfiction. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential ...

Rachel Carson grew up on a small Pennsylvania farm, where she spent hours exploring the outdoors. She always loved books, and when she was young thought she would be a writer. Her first ...