Louis (Studs) Terkel
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[edit] General Information
Name: Louis (Studs) TerkelPen Name: Studs Terkel
Born: May 16, 1912 in New York City, New York
Died: October 31, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois
Website: http://www.studsterkel.org
[edit] Illinois Connection
At the age of eight, Studs moved with his parents to Chicago. He was raised and educated in Chicago and continued to live there the rest of his life.
[edit] Biographical and Professional Information
Studs is an American author and historian. He has also been a Chicago radio and television broadcaster. He is known for his works in oral history. Terkel transcribes tape recorded interviews with ordinary people and edits them into powerful accounts of aspects of modern American life.
[edit] Published Works
- Giants of Jazz, 1957
- Amazing Grace, 1959
- Division Street: America, 1966
- Hard Times, 1970
- Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, 1974
- Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times, Pantheon, 1977
- American Dreams: Lost and Found, Pantheon, 1980, (Reprinted in 1999)
- The Good War: An Oral History of World War II, Pantheon, 1984 (Reprinted in 2004)
- Chicago, 1986
- The Great Divide: Second Thoughts On The American Dream, Pantheon, 1988
- Race, How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession, New Press, 1992, (Reprinted in 2005)
- Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who`ve Lived It, St. Martin`s Press, 1995 (Reprinted in 2007)
- My American Century, Norton 1997, 1998
- The Spectator, Talk about Movies and Plays with the People Who Make Them, New Press , 1999 (Reprinted in 2002)
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith, New Press, 2001, (Reprinted in 2006)
- Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times, 2003
- And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey, 2005
- Touch and Go, 2007
[edit] Titles for Purchase and at Your Library
 | Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My TimesISBN: 0394411021 Release Date: 1977 |
 | American Dreams: Lost and FoundISBN: 1565845455 Release Date: 1999-04-01 |
 | The Good War: An Oral History of World War IIISBN: 1565849450 Release Date: 2004-11 |
 | The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American DreamISBN: 0394570537 Release Date: 1988-08-12 |
 | Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American ObsessionISBN: 1565849892 Release Date: 2005-04-18 |
 | Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth CenturyISBN: 1595581723 Release Date: 2007-05-01 |
 | My American CenturyISBN: 1565844696 Release Date: 1998-09-01 |
 | Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith (Ballantine Reader's Circle)ISBN: 0345451201 Release Date: 2002-11-26 |
 | Division Street: AmericaISBN: 1595580727 Release Date: 2006-04-24 |
 | Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They DoISBN: 1565843428 Release Date: 1997-02-28 |
 | Touch and Go: A MemoirISBN: 1595580433 Release Date: 2007-11-01 |
 | Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great DepressionISBN: 1565846567 Release Date: 2000-11 |
 | Studs Terkel's Working: A Teaching GuideISBN: 1565846265 Release Date: 2001-03 |
 | The Studs Terkel Reader: My American CenturyISBN: 1595581774 Release Date: 2007-05-01 |
 | The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and TheaterISBN: 1595583599 Release Date: 2008-05-01 |
 | ChicagoISBN: 0394553373 Release Date: 1986-09-12 |
 | Giants of JazzISBN: 156584999X Release Date: 2006-09-06 |
 | And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc JockeyISBN: 1595581189 Release Date: 2006-09-06 |
 | P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of ListeningISBN: 1595584234 Release Date: 2008-11-03 |
[edit] Literary Awards
- 1975 National Book Award Finalist in Contemporary Affairs for Working
- Received the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for The Good War.
- In 1990, his name was engraved on the frieze of the Illinois State Library alongside other great Illinois literary figures.
- Received the Illinois Literary Heritage Award in 2006 from the Illinois Center for the Book.
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