author
b. 1890
There doesn’t seem to be enough reliable public information to identify which “James Silver” born in 1890 you mean. Several people with that name appear in search results, but I couldn’t confirm a specific author match.

by James Silver, M. C. (Morris Cotgrave) Betts, W. E. (Winney Elmer) Crouch
I wasn’t able to build a trustworthy author profile from the information provided. Searches for James Silver and born 1890 turned up multiple different people, and the clearly documented author I found — historian James W. Silver — was born in 1907, not 1890.
Because I couldn’t confidently match the name and birth year to a specific writer, I’ve left out unverified details rather than risk giving you the wrong biography. If you have a book title, middle name, nationality, or dates of death, I can narrow it down and produce a proper author overview.