Lois Darling

Lois MacIntyre Darling (August 15, 1917 – December 19, 1989) was an American author, illustrator and researcher. and grew up around Riverside, Connecticut. MacIntyre's father, Malcolm, was a mechanical engineer whilst her mother Grace (born Hamilton) was a skilled artist.

During the Second World War, Darling worked for the U.S. Navy where she combined her artistic skills and her interest in sailing by creating models of warships. In 1946 she met and married her husband, Louis Darling, which launched a lifelong collaboration. Both also worked independently too. He worked in children's books and she created illustrations which included covers for the magazine Yachting.

In 1962, the Darlings' friend Roger Tory Peterson suggested to author Rachel Carson that Louis and Lois be hired to illustrate her forthcoming book, Silent Spring. Their illustrations would be used on the chapter headings and the title page of the first edition.

Her final collaboration with her husband was A Place in the Sun: Ecology and the Living World, published in 1968. Louis died of cancer in 1970.

Darling died at age seventy-two on December 19, 1989, of leukemia at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut.

Works Illustrations Sou’West and by West (1948) (by Llewellyn Howland) Evolution of the Vertebrates (1955) (by Edwin H. Colbert) Before and After the Dinosaurs (1959) Sixty Million Years of Horses (1960) The Science of Life (1961) Bird (1962) Silent Spring (1962) (by Rachel Carson) Coral Reefs (1963) The Sea Serpents Around Us (1965) The Appalachians (1965) (by Maurice Brooks) General Ecology (1967) A Place in the Sun (1968) Dos Uno (1969) Worms (1972)

Author H.M.S. Beagle: Further Research, or Twenty Years a-Beagling (1977)