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Kenneth Silverman in 1984.
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Kenneth Silverman
Died on July 7, 2017 at age 81
Mr. Silverman’s “The Life and Times of Cotton Mather,” a deeply researched, lively biography of the great Puritan preacher, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in 1985.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.