Kenneth Silverman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kenneth Silverman

American biographer

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1936

Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York, United States

Date of Death: 07-Jul-2017

Profession: writer, biographer, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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.