Kenneth Silverman

Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss - American Self-Liberator, Europe's Eclipsing Sensation, World's Handcuff King Prison Breaker - Nothing on Earth Can Hold Houdini a Prisoner!!! is a book by Kenneth Silverman.

"Edgar A Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance" is a biography of American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, by Kenneth Silverman.

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 …