# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rachel-carson
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:05:36.531Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Rachel Louise Carson spent the 1940s as an aquatic biologist at the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, writing on the side. Her 1951 breakout The Sea Around Us won a National Book Award and became a bestseller, which let her quit and write full-time. She followed with Under the Sea Wind (republished in 1952) and The Edge of the Sea in 1955 — a trilogy charting ocean life from surface to floor, all bestsellers. Late in the 1950s she turned from celebrating nature to defending it, focusing on synthetic pesticides. Silent Spring arrived in 1962 to fierce opposition from chemical companies, but it shifted national policy: DDT was banned, and a grassroots environmental movement rose that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Carson died in 1964. Jimmy Carter awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously.