Silverman, Kenneth
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Name (Latin)
Silverman, Kenneth
Date of birth
1936-05-02
Date of death
2017-07-07
Place of birth
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Place of death
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activity
American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism
Associate group
New York University
Occupation
Biographers
Literary historians
College teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Kenneth Eugene
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Sources of Information
- Franklin, B. Autobiography and other writings, 1986:CIP t.p. (Kenneth A. Silverman)
- His Colonial American poetry, 1968.
- Houdini! c1996:CIP t.p. (Kenneth Silverman) data sheet (b. 2-5-36)
- New York times WWW site, viewed July 12, 2017(in obituary published July 10: Kenneth Silverman; b. Kenneth Eugene Silverman, Feb. 5, 1936, Manhattan; d. there Friday [July 7, 2017], aged 81; his The life and times of Cotton Mather, a deeply researched, lively biography of the great Puritan preacher, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in 1985; specialist in Colonial American literature; co-director of the program in American civilization at New York University; also wrote well-received biographies of Edgar Allan Poe, Harry Houdini, Samuel B. Morse, and John Cage)