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Studs Terkel

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Born: May 15 1912

Died: 3030 10 20082008

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Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for "The Good War", and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.

Terkel was acclaimed for his efforts to preserve American oral history. His 1985 book "The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two", which detailed ordinary peoples' accounts of the country's involvement in World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize. For "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression", Terkel assembled recollections of the Great Depression that spanned the socioeconomic spectrum, from Okies, through prison inmates, to the wealthy. His 1974 book, "Working" also was highly acclaimed. In 1995, he received the Chicago History Museum "Making History Award" for Distinction in Journalism and Communications. In 1997, Terkel was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Two years later, he received the George Polk Career Award in 1999.

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Studs Terkel

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Books from Studs Terkel

Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do

The Good War: An Oral History of World War II

The Man with the Golden Arm

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression

Chicago: City on the Make

Division Street: America

The Neon Wilderness

One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko

Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth and Hunger for a Faith

Race: How Blacks And Whites Think And Feel About The American Obsession

Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It

American Dreams: Lost and Found

The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century

Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches

Doonesbury Deluxe: Selected Glances Askance

Last Words of the Executed

Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice

Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler

Steve Goodman: Facing the Music

A Prayer for America