Kenneth Silverman

Kenneth A. Silverman ( born February 5, 1936 in Manhattan, New York City ) is an American biographer and emeritus professor, the professor of English at New York University was.

Life

Kenneth Silverman is the son of Gustave and Silverman Bessie Goldberg. He studied at Columbia University, where in 1956 he took his BA in 1958 and received his master's degree in 1964 received his doctorate. During this time he taught from 1958 to 1959 at the University of Wyoming. From 1964 he taught at New York University and was appointed to a professorship there later.

In addition to teaching Silverman wrote several biographies, among others, Benjamin Franklin, Harry Houdini, and Edgar Allan Poe. For The Life and Times of Cotton Mather New York in 1985, Silverman won both a Pulitzer Prize for the best biography or autobiography as well as with the Bancroft Prize.

Works

• The Life and Times of Cotton Mather New York ( 1984) ISBN 978-1-56649-206-5
• A Cultural History of the American Revolution ( 1986) ISBN 978-0-375-40128-2
• Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings (1986 )
• Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance ( 1991) ISBN 0-06-016715-7
• Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel B. Morse (2003) ISBN 978-0-375-40128-2