Pennsylvania on May 27, 1907. My mother, Maria McLean Carson was a dedicated

teacher and throughout my childhood she encouraged my interests in nature and in

writing. She also encouraged me to publish my first story A Battle in the Clouds in the St.

Nicholas magazine while I was in fourth grade.

After graduating from Parnassus High School, I enrolled into the Pennsylvania

College for Women. I majored in English and continued to write but I also had to take

two semesters of science, which changed my life. In my junior year I changed my major to

zoology, even though science was not considered an appropriate avenue for women.

After graduating college in 1928 I had earned a full one year scholarship to Johns

Hopkins University in Baltimore. This scholarship did not relieve me or my family of our

financial burdens, so I worked throughout graduate school in the genetics department

assisting Dr. Raymond Pearl and Dr. H.S. Jennings and I worked as an assistant teacher in

the zoology department at the University of Maryland. In 1932 I received my masters in

marine zoology. I continued working part-time as a teacher after gr

death in 1980, I was awarded the highest civilian decoration in the nation, The Presidential

heart attack and passed away leaving me to provide for my mother. In 1936, my sister

mother encouraged me to take them in. That same year I took the civil service

Committee. I sold a quarter of a million copies of that book, nut not without it sparking a

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