# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-silverman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:55:31.039Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-silverman"
name: "Kenneth Silverman"
slug: "kenneth-silverman"
description: "Kenneth Eugene Silverman 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."
tagline: "American biographer (1936-2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-02-05"
deathDate: "2017-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.15
  momentum:             0.658682634730539
  historical:           8.539741333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1009281/"
    handle:    "nm1009281"
sources:
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    title: "Kenneth Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كينيث سيلفرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кенет Силвърман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kenneth Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Silverman"
    title: "Kenneth Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Silverman"
    title: "Kenneth Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Silverman"
    title: "Kenneth Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Silverman"
    title: "Kenneth Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%97_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98"
    title: "კენეთ სილვერმანი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Silverman"
    title: "Kenneth Silverman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1738912"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump