**Carroll Lane Fenton** (February 12, 1900 – November 16, 1969) was an American geologist, paleontologist, and prolific science writer. **Early life:** Born on a farm in Butler County, Iowa. Between ages five and ten he lived in Saskatchewan, where local wildlife and Ernest Thompson Seton's books sparked his interest in nature study. Back in Iowa, fossil deposits near his home in Charles City turned that interest specifically toward paleontology. **Education:** Studied geology as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, where he met and married fellow student Mildred Adams. He earned his B.S. in 1921 and his Ph.D. in 1926. **Career:** Fenton wrote and illustrated numerous popular books on geology and paleontology, alongside publications in professional scientific literature. He served as associate editor of the *American Midland Naturalist* from 1923 to 1960, broadening the journal's coverage into paleontology. Many of his later works were co-authored with his wife under the byline Mildred Adams Fenton, including *The Rock Book* (1940) and *The Fossil Book* (1958). He was also an outspoken critic of creationism, laying out evidence for evolution in a series of Little Blue Books in the early 1920s. He died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1969. Sources: - [Carroll Lane Fenton - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Lane_Fenton) - [Carroll Lane Fenton | Open Library](https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL160284A/Carroll_Lane_Fenton) - [Carroll Lane Fenton and Mildred Adams Fenton Manuscripts - University of Iowa Libraries](https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/scua/msc/tomsc650/msc602/fenton.htm)
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