Rollo G. Silver
American literary historian (1909–1989)
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Rollo Gabriel Silver (June 27, 1909 – September 20, 1989) was an American literary historian.
Silver was born on June 27, 1909, in New York City, to Anna (Newman) and Stanley Gabriel Silver.[1]
He attended Brown University, graduating in 1931. He then received a master's in English from Boston University in 1941 and a bachelor's in library science from Simmons College (now Simmons University) in 1948.[2]
Silver was a librarian at a place called the Peabody Institute in Boston (not to be confused with other Peabody Institutes) from 1948 to 1950, after which he taught at Simmons.[1] With his wife Alice Gindin, whom he married on June 9, 1933,[1] Silver compiled a set of manuscripts and other works related to Walt Whitman.[3]
Silver died on September 20, 1989.[2]
Publications
- Typefounding in America, 1787–1825 (University of Virginia Press, 1965)[4]
- The American Printer, 1787–1825 (University of Virginia Press, 1967)[5]
- Publishing in Boston, 1726–57: The Accounts of Daniel Henchman (pamphlet, University of Virginia Press, 1976)[6]
