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]

• 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]

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