Kenneth Eugene Silverman (February 5, 1936 – July 7, 2017) was an American biographer and educator. He won a Pulitzer Prize and a Bancroft Prize for his 1984 biography of Cotton Mather, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather. Silverman, who specialized in Colonial American literature, was a professor of English at New York University until his retirement in 2001.
Kenneth Silverman
Author details
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Kenneth Eugene Silverman
- Born:
- Feb. 5, 1936
- Died:
- July 7, 2017
