- Kenneth Silverman
Kenneth Silverman is a professor emeritus at
New York University and aPulitzer Prize -winning biographer. Silverman was born inManhattan in 1936.Books
* "The Life and Times of
Cotton Mather " New York : Harper & Row, 1984. (1984 - winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography as well as theBancroft Prize in American History) ISBN 9781566492065, ISBN 1566492068.
* "A Cultural History of theAmerican 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.External links
* [http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/cp/vol-03/no-02/silverman/ Article "Biography and Pseudobiography" by Kenneth Silverman]
* [http://www.amazon.com/s?search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Kenneth%20Silverman Kenneth Silverman on Amazon.com]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/23/AR2007032301850.html Interview] in theWashington Post regarding new suggestions about Harry Houdini's cause of death.
* [http://wiredforbooks.org/kensilverman/ 1992 audio interview with Ken Silverman, author of "Edgar A Poe : Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance"] byDon Swaim
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