Carroll Lane Fenton (12 February 1900 – 16 November 1969) was an American geologist, paleontologist, and prolific science writer. Born on a farm in Butler County, Iowa, he lived between the ages of five and ten in Saskatchewan, where local wildlife and the books of Ernest Thompson Seton sparked his interest in nature study. Back in Iowa, the fossil deposits near his home in Charles City turned that interest specifically toward paleontology. He studied geology as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, where he met and married a fellow student, Mildred Adams, earning his B.S. in 1921 and his Ph.D. in 1926. Fenton wrote and illustrated numerous popular books on geology and paleontology alongside his publications in the professional scientific literature, and 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, among them The Rock Book (1940) and The Fossil Book (1958). He was also an outspoken critic of creationism, laying out the evidence for evolution in a series of Little Blue Books in the early 1920s. He died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1969.
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