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.
Books
edit- Roadless Area. New York: Knopf. 1964; 259 pages
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)[4] - The Pursuit of Wilderness. Houghton Mifflin. 1971. ISBN 9780395120934; 220 pages
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)[5][6] - The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work. Boston: G. K. Hall. 1972.[7][8]
- The View from Lincoln Hill: Man and the Land in a New England Town. Houghton Mifflin. 1976. ISBN 9780395243985; 273 pages
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)[9] - Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America. Houghton Mifflin. 1980. ISBN 9780395296103.[10][11]
- The Old Manse and the People Who Lived There. Trustees of Reservations, The Old Manse, Concord, Massachusetts. 1983.
- Two Park Street: a Publishing Memoir. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1986. ISBN 9780395377741; 157 pages
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)[12] - The People of Concord: One Year in the Flowering of New England. Chester, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press. 1990. ISBN 9780871064349. Brooks, Paul (2014). Dover reprint. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486781433; pbk, 304 pages
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References
edit- ^ 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) - ^ "Review of Two Park Street by Paul Brooks". Publishers Weekly. 1 December 1986.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Review of Roadless Area by Paul Brooks". Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Smith, Anthony (January 1972). "Review of The Pursuit of Wilderness, by Paul Brooks". Oryx. 11 (4): 288. doi:10.1017/s0030605300010139.
- ^ "Review of The Pursuit of Wilderness by Paul Brooks". Kirkus Reviews. 17 May 1971.
- ^ Johnson, Josephine (30 April 1972). "Review of The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work by Paul Brooks". NY Times.
- ^ "Review of The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work by Paul Brooks". Kirkus Reviews. 13 March 1972.
- ^ "Review of The View from Lincoln Hill: Man and the Land in a New England Town by Paul Brooks". Kirkus Reviews. 6 August 1976.
- ^ Lillard, Richard G. (1 April 1981). "Review of Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America by Paul Brooks". Forest & Conservation History. 25 (2): 109–110. doi:10.2307/4004551. JSTOR 4004551.
- ^ "Review of Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America by Paul Brooks". Kirkus Reviews. 23 October 1980.
- ^ Basbanes, Nicholas A. (December 1987). "Review of Two Park Street: A Publishing Memoir by Paul Brooks". The New England Quarterly. 60 (4): 646–648. doi:10.2307/365433. JSTOR 365433.