James J. Silvers

"[Prominent literary critic and editor] Robert Benjamin Silvers was born on Dec. 31, 1929, in Mineola, N.Y., a village on Long Island. His father, James, was a businessman who left Manhattan to live the rural life. His mother, the former Rose Roden, was the music critic for the The New York Globe, long since disappeared." (New York Times)

"[Robert] Silvers was born in Mineola, New York, and grew up in Farmingdale and then Rockville Centre, New York, the son of James J. Silvers (1892–1986), a salesman, sometime farmer and entrepreneur, and Rose Roden Silvers (1895–1979), a music critic for the New York Globe and one of the first female radio hosts for RCA. He had one brother, Edwin D. Silvers (1927–2000), a civil engineer. His paternal grandparents were Romanian Jewish immigrants, and his maternal grandparents were Russian Jews." (Wikipedia)

Sources

• Grimes, William. "Robert Silvers, a Founding Editor of New York Review of Books, Dies at 87." New York Times, published 20 March 2017. < https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/books/robert-silvers-dead-foundi... > Accessed 21 March 2017.
• "Robert B. Silvers." Wikipedia. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Silvers > Accessed 21 March 2017.