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Silverman, Kenneth Eugene was born on February 5, 1936 in New York City. Son of Gustave and Bessie (Goldberg) Silverman.
( This brilliantly conceived biography is the very Americ...)
This brilliantly conceived biography is the very American tale of a quiet man, raised by religious zealots, who became a gifted and prolific painter (more than three hundred portraits and historical canvases), became the first Professor of Fine Arts at an American college, and founded the National Academy of Design. A classic overachiever, this was simply not enough for Samuel F. B. Morse; he subsequently ran for Congress and mayor of New York. Lastly, in his most famous life's work, he invented a machine that was to transform commerce, communication, transportation, military affairs, diplomacy, and the course of the modern world. What invention could be so revolutionary? The telegraph, of course-and the eponymous Morse code. Here is the story of an incredible invention, and an engrossing life, by a Bancroft- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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(John Cage was a man of extraordinary and seemingly limitl...)
John Cage was a man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents: musician, inventor, composer, poet. He became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. Now award-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman gives us the first comprehensive life of this remarkable artist. We follow Cage from his Los Angeles childhood—his father was a successful inventor—through his stay in Paris from 1930 to 1931, where immersion in the burgeoning new musical and artistic movements triggered an explosion of creativity in him and, after his return to the States, into his studies with the seminal modern composer Arnold Schoenberg. We see Cage’s early experiments with sound and percussion instruments, and watch as he develops his signature work with prepared piano, radio static, random noise, and silence. We learn of his many friendships over the years with other composers, artists, philosophers, and writers; of his early marriage and several lovers, both female and male; and of his long relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham, with whom he would collaborate on radically unusual dances that continue to influence the worlds of both music and dance. Drawing on interviews with Cage’s contemporaries and friends and on the enormous archive of his letters and writings, and including photographs, facsimiles of musical scores, and Web links to illustrative sections of his compositions, Silverman gives us a biography of major significance: a revelatory portrait of one of the most important cultural figures of the twentieth century.
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(From a Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer, the most reveal...)
From a Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer, the most revealing, fascinating, and important biography of one of our greatest literary figures.
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(Book by Silverman, Kenneth)
Book by Silverman, Kenneth
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(Reintroducing Kenneth Silverman's Pulitzer Prize-winning ...)
Reintroducing Kenneth Silverman's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the most celebrated of all New England Puritans, at once a sophisticated work which succeeds admirably in presenting a complete portrait of a complex man and a groundbreaking study that accurately portrays Mather and his contemporaries as the first true American rather than European expatriates.
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Silverman, Kenneth Eugene was born on February 5, 1936 in New York City. Son of Gustave and Bessie (Goldberg) Silverman.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia University, 1956; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1964.
Instructor English, U. Wyoming, Laramie, 1958-1959; preceptor in English, Columbia University, New York City, 1962-1964; Professor of English, co-director The Biography Seminar, New York University, New York City, since 1964. Advisory council Institute Early American History and Culture 1984-1987.
(Reintroducing Kenneth Silverman's Pulitzer Prize-winning ...)
(Reintroducing Kenneth Silverman's Pulitzer Prize-winning ...)
( This brilliantly conceived biography is the very Americ...)
(From a Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer, the most reveal...)
(John Cage was a man of extraordinary and seemingly limitl...)
(Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.)
(Book by Silverman, Kenneth)
(. 1993, 564pp)
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Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, Society of America Historians, American Antiquarian Society, Authors Guild, Society of America Magicians.
Children: Willa Zahava, Ethan Leigh.