Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel
Terkel at a 2007 rally about health care
Born	May 16, 1912(1912-05-16) New York City, New York, United States
Died	October 31, 2008(2008-10-31) (aged 96) Chicago, Illinois, United States

Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912–October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster who lived in Chicago. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for his work The Good War.

Selected works

• Giants of Jazz (1957) ISBN 1-56584-769-5
• Division Street: America (1967) ISBN 0-394-42267-8
• Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1970)

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  ISBN 0-394-42774-2
• Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974)

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  ISBN 0394478843
• Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times (1977)

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  ISBN 0-394-41102-1
• American Dreams: Lost and Found (1983) ISBN
• The Good War (1984)

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  ISBN 0-394-53103-5
• Chicago (1986)

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  ISBN 5-551-54568-7
• The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream (1988)

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  ISBN 0-394-57053-7
• Race: What Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (1992)

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  ISBN 978-1-56584-000-3
• Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who’ve Lived It (1995)

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  ISBN 1-56584-284-7
• My American Century (1997)

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  ISBN 1-59558-177-4
• The Spectator: Talk About Movies and Plays With Those Who Make Them (1999)

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  ISBN 1-56584-633-8
• Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Reflections on Death, Rebirth and Hunger for a Faith (2001)

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  ISBN 0-641-75937-1
• Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times (2003)

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  ISBN 1-56584-837-3
• And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey (2005) ISBN |1-59558-003-4
• Touch and Go (2007)

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  ISBN 1-59558-043-3
• P.S. Further Thoughts From a Lifetime of Listening (2008)

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  ISBN 1-59558-423-4

Other websites

• Studs Terkel's Official Site
• Studs Terkel on IMDb
• Audio & Video Archive of Studs Terkel Interviews on Democracy Now!
• 2005 video of WFMT Critic-at-Large Andrew Patner's interview with Studs Terkel at the University of Chicago
• Direct link to Studs Terkel Video on InDepth of C-SPAN
• 1988 audio interview with Studs Terkel by Don Swaim of CBS Radio - RealAudio
• Studs Terkel - The Last Touch - interviews with Terkel by Alan Hall in 2004 and 2005 - streaming and podcast audio on ABC Radio National
• In October, 2008 looking forward to the historic election in America, he gave his last interview.
• 2007 video interview with Studs Terkel by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
• [1] The Legacy.com page for Studs Terkel
• [2] Video: Remembering Studs Terkel
• BBC Obituary: Pulitzer winner Terkel dies at 96 [3]
• Signature of Studs Terkel
• news.bbc.co.uk, BBC, Obituary: Studs Terkel