Paul Brooks (writer) explained

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

• Book: Roadless Area. 1964. New York. Knopf.

  259 pages

  . ^[4]
• Book: The Pursuit of Wilderness. registration. Houghton Mifflin. 1971. 9780395120934 .

  220 pages

  . ^{[5] [6]}
• Book: The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work. Boston. G. K. Hall. 1972. ^{[7] [8]}
• Book: The View from Lincoln Hill: Man and the Land in a New England Town. registration. Houghton Mifflin. 1976. 9780395243985 .

  273 pages

  . ^[9]
• Book: Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America. registration. Houghton Mifflin. 1980. 9780395296103 . ^{[10] [11]}
• Book: The Old Manse and the People Who Lived There. Trustees of Reservations, The Old Manse, Concord, Massachusetts. 1983.
• Book: Two Park Street: a Publishing Memoir. registration. 1986. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 9780395377741 .

  157 pages

  . ^[12]
• Book: The People of Concord: One Year in the Flowering of New England. registration. Chester, Connecticut. Globe Pequot Press. 1990. 9780871064349 . Book: Dover reprint. 2014.

  pbk, 304 pages

  . 9780486781433. Brooks. Paul. Courier Corporation .

Notes and References

1. Web site:

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   . Paul Brooks papers, 10 April 1852 - 12 December 1998, The Paul Brooks Collection. The Walden Woods Project (walden.org). 10 March 2016 .
2. Web site: Review of Two Park Street by Paul Brooks. Publishers Weekly. 1 December 1986.
3. Book: And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Waddell, Craig. 2000. Southern Illinois University Press. xv–xvi. 9780809322183.
4. Web site: Review of Roadless Area by Paul Brooks. Kirkus Reviews.
5. Oryx. 11. 4. Review of The Pursuit of Wilderness, by Paul Brooks. January 1972. 288. Smith, Anthony. 10.1017/s0030605300010139. free.
6. Web site: Review of The Pursuit of Wilderness by Paul Brooks. 17 May 1971. Kirkus Reviews.
7. News: Johnson, Josephine. Josephine Johnson. Review of The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work by Paul Brooks. NY Times. 30 April 1972.
8. Web site: Review of The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work by Paul Brooks. 13 March 1972. Kirkus Reviews.
9. Web site: Review of The View from Lincoln Hill: Man and the Land in a New England Town by Paul Brooks. 6 August 1976. Kirkus Reviews.
10. Lillard, Richard G.. Review of Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America by Paul Brooks. Forest & Conservation History. 1 April 1981. 25. 2. 109–110. 10.2307/4004551. 4004551.
11. Web site: Review of Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America by Paul Brooks. 23 October 1980. Kirkus Reviews.
12. Basbanes, Nicholas A.. Nicholas A. Basbanes. Review of Two Park Street: A Publishing Memoir by Paul Brooks. The New England Quarterly. December 1987. 60. 4. 646–648. 365433. 10.2307/365433.