Rachel Carson Hello, my name is Rachel Lousie Carson. I was born on a farm in Springdale, Pennsylvania on May 27, 1907. My mother, Maria McLean Carson was a dedicated teacher and throughout my childhood she encouraged my interests in nature and in writing. She also encouraged me to publish my first story A Battle in the Clouds in the St. Nicholas magazine while I was in fourth grade. After graduating from Parnassus High School, I enrolled …showed first 75 words of 886 total…

…showed last 75 words of 886 total…April 14, 1964, I passed away at age fifty-six of breast cancer but I was happy to have lived long enough to receive such awards as the Schweitzer Medal of the Animal Welfare Institute, The National Wildlife Federation’s “Conservation of the Year,” and the first medal awarded to a woman by the National Audobon Society. Even long after my death in 1980, I was awarded the highest civilian decoration in the nation, The Presidential Medal of Freedom.