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. Wikipedia
Born: February 5, 1936, Manhattan, New York, NY
Died: July 7, 2017 (age 81 years), Manhattan, New York, NY
Books
Edgar A Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance
1991
Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss - American Self-Liberator, Europe's Eclipsing Sensation, World's Handcuff King & Prison Breaker - Nothing on Earth Can Hold Houdini a Prisoner!!!
1996
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
1984
Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
2003
Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage
2010
New Essays on Poe's Major Tales
1993