Kenneth Silverman

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American biographer (1936-2017)

United States WritersLived 1936 to 2017 · aged 81

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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.

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1985Bancroft Prize

1985Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Guggenheim Fellowship

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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.

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