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Studs (Louis) Terkel
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16 May 1912 - 31 October 2008
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Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912, New York – October 31, 2008, Chicago) was an American writer and radio journalist. Master of the interview genre.
Studs Terkel was born in New York, but soon moved from his parent to Chicago, where he lived his entire life. He studied law at the University of Chicago, but preferred to work in radio. Terkel was a master of so-called "oral history", all of his books were written in the genre of interviews he took from the most ordinary people with whom he discussed
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Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912, New York – October 31, 2008, Chicago) was an American writer and radio journalist. Master of the interview genre.
Studs Terkel was born in New York, but soon moved from his parent to Chicago, where he lived his entire life. He studied law at the University of Chicago, but preferred to work in radio. Terkel was a master of so-called "oral history", all of his books were written in the genre of interviews he took from the most ordinary people with whom he discussed their own lives and views. Terkel worked for the Chicago Historical Society and most of his books are devoted to American history. His first book, The Giants of Jazz, was published in 1956, and his most famous was Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression in 1970. For his book The Good War (1984), Terkel won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1997 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The nickname "Studs" was due to the similarity with the character of the trilogy of J. T. Farrellot about Studs Lonigan, who also did without a driver's license. In addition to working on radio and television, where he led his own programs, he also starred in films.