Scientist, Activist (27-May-1907 — 14-Apr-1964)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

William Accorsi. Rachel Carson. Holiday House, Inc.. 1993.

Rachel Carson. Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964: An Intimate Portrait of a Remarkable Friendship. Boston: Beacon. 1995. 567pp.

Linda Lear. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. London: Penguin Press. 1998. 634pp.

Mark Hamilton Lytle. The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. 277pp.

Priscilla Coit Murphy. What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring. University of Massachusetts Press. 2007. 254pp.

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

7. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.184)

8. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.129)

9. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.124)

10. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.267)

11. Webster's American Biographies (p.180)

12. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.125)

13. Twentieth Century Authors, First Supplement (p.174)

14. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.173)

15. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.119)

16. Public Intellectuals: A Study in Decline (p.195)

17. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography (p.120)

18. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.92)

19. International Dictionary of Women's Biography (p.96)

20. Almanac of American Women in the 20th Century (p.121)

21. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (p.182)

22. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists (p.89)

23. Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography (p.109)

24. Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States (p.152)

25. Legends in Their Own Time (p.43)

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