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Kenneth Silverman

American biographer (1936-2017) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 81

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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Awards

Bancroft Prize1985
Pulitzer Prize for Biography1985
Guggenheim Fellowship

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Silverman, who specialized in Colonial American literature, was a professor of English at New York University until his retirement in 2001.

Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1936 to 2017 · aged 81

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