PAUL BROOKS was for many years Rachel Carson's editor and friend. He was a former editor in chief at Houghton Mifflin Co. and the author of Roadless Area ( 1964), The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work ( 1972), Speaking for Nature ( 1980), and other books.
EDWARD P. J. CORBETT was a professor of rhetoric and com- position at The Ohio State University He was the author of Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student ( 1965, 1971, 1990, 1999) and numer- ous other scholarly books and articles on rhetoric and composition. He was a founder of the Rhetoric Society of America and an editor of Col- lege Composition and Communication.
CAROL B. GARTNER is a professor of English at Purdue Univer- sity Calumet. She is the author of Rachel Carson ( 1983), a critical ap- praisal of Carson's life and work, and of numerous scholarly articles and the entries on Rachel Carson in Ungar's American Women Writers and Collier's Encyclopedia.
CHERYLL GLOTFELTY is an associate professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. She was cofoun- der and past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and is coeditor of The Ecocriticism Reader ( 1996).
RANDY HARRIS is an associate professor of rhetoric at the Uni- versity of Waterloo; he is the author of The Linguistic Wars ( 1993), the
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Publication Information: Book Title: And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Contributors: Craig Waddell - editor. Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press. Place of Publication: Carbondale, IL. Publication Year: 2000. Page Number: 221.
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