Kenneth Silverman

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Kenneth Silverman is a professor emeritus at New York University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. Silverman was born in Manhattan in 1936.

[edit] Books

• The Life and Times of Cotton Mather New York : Harper & Row, 1984. (1984 - winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography as well as the Bancroft Prize in American History) ISBN 9781566492065, ISBN 1566492068.
• A Cultural History of the American Revolution (Random House, 1986) ISBN 9780375401282.
• Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance (New York: Harper Collins, 1991) ISBN 0-06-016715-7.
• Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss (1997) ISBN 006092862X
• Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel B. Morse (Random House, 2003) ISBN 9780375401282.

[edit] External links

• Article "Biography and Pseudobiography" by Kenneth Silverman
• Kenneth Silverman on Amazon.com
• Interview in the Washington Post regarding new suggestions about Harry Houdini's cause of death.
• 1992 audio interview with Ken Silverman, author of Edgar A Poe : Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance by Don Swaim