Rollo G. Silver


Rollo Gabriel Silver was an American literary historian.
Silver was born on June 27, 1909, in New York City, to Anna and Stanley Gabriel Silver.
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 in 1948.
Silver was a librarian at a place called the Peabody Institute in Boston from 1948 to 1950, after which he taught at Simmons. With his wife Alice Gindin, whom he married on June 9, 1933, Silver compiled a set of manuscripts and other works related to Walt Whitman.
Silver died on September 20, 1989.

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Typefounding in America, 1787–1825 The American Printer, 1787–1825