Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman will speak on “Biographer Pursues Houdini: Researching the Life of the World's Handcuff King” on Monday, May 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.
Author of The Cultural History of the American Revolution, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather (for which Silverman won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prize),
and Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance (winner of the Mystery Writers Award), Silverman has recently published Houdini!!!, which has been praised
for its insight into American culture.
The talk is sponsored by the English department.