Rachel Louise Carson was born on May 27, 1907, in Springdale, Pennsylvania.1 As a young child, Carson had already shown signs of great intelligence and a deep adoration of the ocean and nature. She made the decision to pursue her lifelong love of the ocean and became a marine biology student at the Pennsylvania College for Women, where she graduated in 1929. But it wasn't until the 1940s that Carson worked as a scientist and editor for the American newspaper. Bureau of Fisheries of the Fish and Wildlife Service, that her passion and literary work would take her to a level of popularity she had never experienced before. By 1958, Carson had become very popular as a writer and environmentalist. When she discovered that the United States had falsified the creation of synthetic chemical insecticides, namely the incredibly harmful new chemical DDT (dichloride-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane) and its indiscriminate use on insects, she knew that she had to act. Carson firmly believed that humans were working dangerously against nature with their heinous misuse of these pesticides and decided to set out by combining his knowledge of government research and his deep love for nature to create literary works of art that would be read by millions of people. The difference that Rachel Carson made to ecology and environmental conservation with the publication of her most famous novel, Silent Spring, would be one of the major achievements of the 20th century. Carson graduated from college knowing she wanted to become an author. Her first novel, Under the Sea-Wind, received positive reviews but was published a month before the attack on Pearl Harbor.3 The country went to war and Carson's novel did not receive as much attention as it did. hoped. “The world rec...... middle of paper ......Electronic information:Doyle, Jack. “Power in the Pen, Silent Spring: 1962,” PopHistoryDig.com, February 21, 2012. Available at http://www.pophistorydig.com/?tag=rachel-carson-senate-hearings Accessed November 8, 2013Lear, Linda. “Rachel Carson and the awakening of environmental consciousness.” National Humanities Center, June 2002. Available at http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntwilderness/essays/carson.htm Accessed November 6, 2013McKie, Robin. “Rachel Carson and the legacy of Silent Spring” The Guardian, May 2012. Available at http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/may/27/rachel-carson-silent-spring-anniversary Accessed November 8 2013No Author. Indiana University Class “Rachel Carson and Silent Spring” websites, available at http://classwebs.spea.indiana.edu/bakerr/v600/rachel_carson_and_silent_spring.htm Accessed November 8 2013