Paley, Grace. (1922–2007) & Kaplan, Justin. (1925–2014) & Lewis, R. W. B. (1917–2002) [Silverman, Kenneth. (1936–2017)]. Group of Letters to Author Ken Silverman.
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. Silverman, who specialized In Colonial American literature, was a professor of English at New York University until his retirement in 2001.
Group of three autograph and typed notes signed from writer Grace Paley, editor Justin Kaplan, and critic R. W. B. Lewis to the Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer Kenneth Silverman. Complete contents: autograph postcard from Grace Paley (postmarked January 26, 1995), writing that "I don't remember ever saying anything like that. If you find it please let me know..."; typed postcard signed from R. W. B. Lewis (April 24, 1997, signed "Dick L"), regarding "a fat paragraph on B. W. for the Century," as well as agents and a mention of another book; autograph postcard from Justin Kaplan, editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (January 3, 1998), thanking Silverman for sending material and mentioning the forthcoming new edition of Bartlett's. In fine condition overall.
Paley, Grace. (1922–2007) & Kaplan, Justin. (1925–2014) & Lewis, R. W. B. (1917–2002) [Silverman, Kenneth. (1936–2017)]. Group of Letters to Author Ken Silverman.
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. Silverman, who specialized In Colonial American literature, was a professor of English at New York University until his retirement in 2001.
Group of three autograph and typed notes signed from writer Grace Paley, editor Justin Kaplan, and critic R. W. B. Lewis to the Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer Kenneth Silverman. Complete contents: autograph postcard from Grace Paley (postmarked January 26, 1995), writing that "I don't remember ever saying anything like that. If you find it please let me know..."; typed postcard signed from R. W. B. Lewis (April 24, 1997, signed "Dick L"), regarding "a fat paragraph on B. W. for the Century," as well as agents and a mention of another book; autograph postcard from Justin Kaplan, editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (January 3, 1998), thanking Silverman for sending material and mentioning the forthcoming new edition of Bartlett's. In fine condition overall.