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Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American writer, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction 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.
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culture · American author, historian and broadcaster (1912–2008) · journalist · historian · radio personality · writer · poet lawyer · music journalist · actor · also Studs Terkel, Louis Terkel, Terkel
Born 16 May 1912 · Died 31 October 2008 · Q529276
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2026· 1 entry
2022· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Studs Terkel and Complete Book Reviews
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2020· 1 entry
Northcountrypublicradio.org: Fifty Years After Studs Terkel Published 'Hard Times' ... Here We Are Again
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2019· 1 entry
Podcast The Radio Diaries, produced by Radiotopia on PRX, released an episode called "The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
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2018· 1 entry
The Nation: Studs Terkel Made Oral History
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2017· 4 entries
The Guardian: Studs Terkel’s Working – new jobs, same need for meaning
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The Guardian: Working review – Lin-Manuel Miranda retunes Terkel's paean to American labour
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The Guardian: The week in radio: The World According to Studs Terkel; People Fixing the World podcast; Between the Ears
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The Guardian: This week’s best radio: Studs Terkel and the best of Anthony Burgess
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2012· 1 entry
The Guardian: Studs Terkel's study of race in the US: 20 years on
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2010· 1 entry
Terkel was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
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2008· 9 entries
World Socialist Web Site: Studs Terkel, American writer and documentarian, dead at 96
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The Nation: In Defense of Studs Terkel
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The Guardian: Studs Terkel's fine art of interviewing
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NPR: Why Studs Terkel Will Always Have A Fan Club
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The Guardian: Sasha Abramsky: Studs Terkel was one of America's most extraordinary chroniclers
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Died 2008-10-31.
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The Guardian: Review: The Studs Terkel Interviews by Studs Terkel
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NPR: Radio Legend Studs Terkel On Piano Jazz
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The Guardian: Gary Younge talks to US oral historian Studs Terkel
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2007· 2 entries
Terkel said he was "still in touch—but ready to go"
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“still in touch—but ready to go”
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2006· 3 entries
The Guardian: Observer review: And They All Sang by Studs Terkel
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Terkel, along with other plaintiffs, including Quentin Young, filed suit in federal district court against AT&T Inc
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Terkel received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the first and only annual U
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2005· 2 entries
SFGate: Top musicians get heard in Studs Terkel's interviews
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The Guardian: Studs Terkel salutes Nelson Algren, a seriously witty man
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2004· 6 entries
The Guardian: Profile: Studs Terkel
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The Guardian: Observer review: Hope Dies Last by Studs Terkel
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Awarded Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award (2004).
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Awarded Order of Lincoln (2004).
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Terkel received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College
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Terkel was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in the area of Communications
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2003· 2 entries
Democracy Now: Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
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Awarded Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
The Guardian: Oliver Burkeman talks to Studs Terkel
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2001· 2 entries
Terkel was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame as a Friend of the Community
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Terkel was made an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Northwestern University
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded George Polk Award (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Thomas Merton Award (1998).
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1997· 3 entries
Awarded National Book Award (1997).
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Won National Humanities Medal (1997).
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Terkel was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters
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1995· 1 entry
Received the Chicago History Museum "Making History Award" for Distinction in Journalism and Communications
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1985· 3 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1985).
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Terkel received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book The Good War
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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
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Eugene V. Debs Award (1983).
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1982· 1 entry
Terkel was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Illinois at Chicago
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Paul Robeson Award (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Peabody Awards (1980).
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1967· 1 entry
With his first collection of oral histories, Division Street: America, with 70 people talking about the effect on the human spirit of living in an American metropolis
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1939· 1 entry
Married Ida Goldberg (1912–1999), and the couple had one son
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1934· 1 entry
(and was admitted to the Illinois Bar the following year), he decided that, instead of practicing law, he wanted to be a concierge at a hotel, and he soon joined a theater group
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-05-16.
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