Rachel Carson author to talk

Linda Lear, the author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature and research professor of environmental history at George Washington University, will discuss her book at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 14, in Mitchell Hall, and at noon, Thursday, Nov. 15, at the William Carter Partnership Building on the Delaware Technical and Community College campus in Georgetown.

Lear's book on Rachel Carson was awarded the best book on women in science by the History of Science Society in 1999 and has been optioned by Turner Television.

An authority on Carson and the author of numerous articles about her, Lear is the editor of the anthology, Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson. She also was the historical consultant for the PBS/American Experience film, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. In addition, she has written the introduction to a new edition of Carson's The Sense of Wonder, as well as the preface to The Edge of the Sea and the afterword for Silent Spring, both Penguin editions.

Currently, she is working on an environmental biography, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature.

For information, call Ed Kee at (302) 856-7303 or send e-mail to [Kee@udel.edu].