Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964. Silent spring (Personal Name)

Rachel Carson's Silent spring, c1993.

Stucky, Steven. Silent spring : for orchestra, 2013: page 2 ("in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's The silent spring")

Wikipedia, August 4, 2015: Silent Spring (Silent Spring is an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson and published in 1962; By 1958, Carson had arranged a book deal, with plans to co-write with Newsweek science journalist Edwin Diamond. However, when The New Yorker commissioned a long and well-paid article on the topic from Carson, she began considering writing more than the introduction and conclusion as planned; soon it became a solo project. Most of the research and writing was done by the fall of 1960, except for a discussion of recent research on biological controls and investigations of some new pesticides. However, further health troubles delayed the final revisions in 1961 and early 1962; In 1996, a follow-up book, Beyond Silent Spring, co-written by H.F. van Emden and David Peakall, was published. In 2011, American composer Steven Stucky wrote an eponymously titled symphonic poem, Silent Spring, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the book's publication) Silent Spring (composition) (Silent Spring is a 2011 symphonic poem for orchestra by American composer Steven Stucky. The piece was written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the environmental science book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson)