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'''"Studs" Terkel''' (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. Turkel received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for "The Good War".
'''Louis "Studs" Terkel''' (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. Turkel received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for "The Good War".
He is well known for his oral histories of everyday Americans, and for his long-running Chicago radio show.
He is well known for his oral histories of everyday Americans, and for his long-running Chicago radio show.
==Life and works==
Terkel was born May 16, 1912.<ref>https://www.biography.com/people/studs-terkel-9504206</ref> He was born Louis Terkel to Russian-Jewish immigrants in New York City, a tailor and a circus performer, but he moved to Chicago at age eight, where his family operated a rooming house.<ref>http://www.historyguy.com/worldbiography/terkel_studs.html</ref> He received a law degree from the University of Chicago law school, but rather than practice law, he worked as a concierge, then joined a theater group, then worked doing miscellaneous radio tasks on Chicago's WFMT.<ref>http://www.jewage.org/wiki/en/Article:Studs_Terkel_-_Biography</ref> From 1949 to 1953, he performed a radio show called "Studs' Place," about a greasy-spoon diner, but his show was blacklisted and taken off the air. He returned to radio in 1958 with "The Studs Terkel Show," where he interviewed such famous musicians as [[Bob Dylan]] and [[Leonard Bernstein]].<ref>http://biography.yourdictionary.com/louis-terkel</ref>
During the 1960s, he used a tape recorder to interview random people, from the unemployed to corporate executives, and he gathered these interviews in ''Division Street: America'' (1967), which was a highly praised work of oral history consisting of transcripts of conversations.<ref>"Terkel, Studs." ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref> His other works include ''Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression'' (1970), ''Working'' (1974), ''American Dreams: Lost and Found'' (1980), the Pulitzer Prize winner ''The Good War: An Oral History of World War II'' (1985), and ''The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream'' (1988).<ref>http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/5949/Studs-Terkel-(Studs-Louis-Terkel).html</ref>
He died on October 31, 2008, in Chicago.
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[[Category:American Authors]]
[[Category:American Authors]]