Paul Brooks (writer)

Paul Brooks (1909–1998) was a nature writer, book editor, and environmentalist.[1]

Brooks received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1931, where he was the editor of the Harvard Lampoon.[1] Soon after graduation, he became an employee at the publishing company Houghton Mifflin in Boston and remained with the company for 40 years. He was editor-in-chief of Houghton Mifflin's General Book Department from 1943 until his retirement in 1969. He wrote Two Park Street: A Publishing Memoir, containing anecdotes about his experiences editing the works of Rachel Carson, Roger Tory Peterson, Winston Churchill, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and James Agee, among others.[2] Paul Brooks suggested the title Silent Spring for Rachel Carson's famous book.[3]

In 1965 Brooks won the John Burroughs Medal for his 1964 book Roadless Area.

  1. ^ a b "Paul Brooks papers, 10 April 1852 - 12 December 1998, The Paul Brooks Collection". The Walden Woods Project (walden.org). 10 March 2016; collection processed, December 2014, by Chloe Morse-Harding{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  2. ^ "Review of Two Park Street by Paul Brooks". Publishers Weekly. 1 December 1986.
  3. ^ Waddell, Craig, ed. (2000). And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Southern Illinois University Press. pp. xv–xvi. ISBN 9780809322183.