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.
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.