Rachel Carson
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 …
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…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.
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