Rachel Carson Protecting Our Earth Author:Adele Glimm, Bank Street College of Education She was always a writer. 10-year-old Rachel Louise Carson, born in 1907 in Springdale, PA, was first published in the St. Nicholas literary magazine for children. A reader and devotee of all nature, the shy girl continued writing throughout adolescence, and chose an Englilsh major at Pennsylvania College for Women. Not until junior year, when a ... more »biology course reawakened the "sense of wonder" with which she had always encountered the natural world, did she switch her job to zoology, not yet aware that her literary and scientific passions might be work together to make her one of the most influential environmentalists in the world.« less