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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Kenneth Silverman</span></h1>
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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Kenneth Eugene Silverman</b> (* <a href="5._Februar" title="5. Februar">5. Februar</a> <a href="1936" title="1936">1936</a> in <a href="Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>; † <a href="7._Juli" title="7. Juli">7. Juli</a> <a href="2017" title="2017">2017</a> ebenda)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> war ein <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">US-amerikanischer</a> <a href="Biograf" title="Biograf">Biograf</a> und <a href="Hochschullehrer" title="Hochschullehrer">Hochschullehrer</a>. Er war <a href="Professor" title="Professor">Professor</a> für <a href="Anglistik" title="Anglistik">Anglistik</a> an der <a href="New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>.
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<p>Kenneth Silverman war der Sohn von Gustave Silverman und Bessie Goldberg. Er studierte an der <a href="Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>, wo er 1956 seinen <a href="Bachelor" title="Bachelor">Bachelor</a> machte, 1958 seinen <a href="Master" title="Master">Master</a> erhielt und 1964 <a href="Promotion_(Doktor)" title="Promotion (Doktor)">promovierte</a>. Während dieser Zeit unterrichtete er von 1958 bis 1959 an der <a href="University_of_Wyoming" title="University of Wyoming">University of Wyoming</a>. Ab 1964 unterrichtete er an der <a href="New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a> und wurde dort später zum <a href="Professor" title="Professor">Professor</a> berufen.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Neben seiner Lehrtätigkeit schrieb Silverman mehrere <a href="Biografie" title="Biografie">Biografien</a>, unter anderen über <a href="Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>, <a href="Harry_Houdini" title="Harry Houdini">Harry Houdini</a> und <a href="Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a>. Für <i>The Life and Times of Cotton Mather</i> wurde Silverman 1985 sowohl mit einem <a href="Pulitzer-Preis" title="Pulitzer-Preis">Pulitzer-Preis</a> für die <a href="Pulitzer-Preis/Biographie_oder_Autobiographie" title="Pulitzer-Preis/Biographie oder Autobiographie">Beste Biographie oder Autobiographie</a> als auch mit dem <a href="Bancroft-Preis" title="Bancroft-Preis">Bancroft-Preis</a> ausgezeichnet. 2002 wurde er in die <a href="American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> gewählt.
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<ul><li><i>The Life and Times of Cotton Mather</i> (1984) ISBN 978-1-56649-206-5</li>
<li><i>A Cultural History of the American Revolution</i> (1986) ISBN 978-0-375-40128-2</li>
<li><i>Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings</i> (1986)</li>
<li><i>Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance</i> (1991) ISBN 0-06-016715-7</li>
<li><i>Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss</i> (1997) ISBN 0-06-092862-X</li>
<li><i>Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel B. Morse</i> (2003) ISBN 978-0-375-40128-2</li>
<li><i>Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage</i> (2010) ISBN 978-1400044375</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1009281/">Kenneth Silverman</a> bei <a href="IMDb" title="IMDb">IMDb</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=172375053">Literatur von und über Kenneth Silverman</a> im Katalog der <a href="Deutsche_Nationalbibliothek" title="Deutsche Nationalbibliothek">Deutschen Nationalbibliothek</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite">William Grimes: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/books/kenneth-silverman-pulitzer-winning-author-dies-at-81.html"><i>Kenneth Silverman, Pulitzer-Winning Author, Dies at 81.</i></a> In: <i><a href="The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>.</i> 10. Juli 2017,<span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 11. Juli 2017</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AKenneth+Silverman&rft.title=Kenneth+Silverman%2C+Pulitzer-Winning+Author%2C+Dies+at+81&rft.description=Kenneth+Silverman%2C+Pulitzer-Winning+Author%2C+Dies+at+81&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F07%2F10%2Fbooks%2Fkenneth-silverman-pulitzer-winning-author-dies-at-81.html&rft.creator=William+Grimes&rft.date=2017-07-10&rft.language=en"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/silverman-kenneth-1936"><i>Silverman, Kenneth 1936-.</i></a> In: <i>Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series (via encyclopedia.com).</i><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 14. April 2020</span>.</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AKenneth+Silverman&rft.title=Silverman%2C+Kenneth+1936-&rft.description=Silverman%2C+Kenneth+1936-&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.encyclopedia.com%2Farts%2Feducational-magazines%2Fsilverman-kenneth-1936"> </span></span>
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