Studs Terkel
Sign in to saveAmerican author, historian and broadcaster (1912-2008)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1912
- Died
- 2008
- Works
- 60
Top works
- My American century
- Noah's Ark of Recurring Celebration : San Francisco Annual Event History
- Studs Terkel's Chicago
- Giants of jazz ; sketches by Robert Galster
- the good war
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Film & TV
Acting · New York, New York, U.S
Known for
- Algren — Self2021
- Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...2015
- Prohibition — Self - Writer2011
- Studs Terkel: Listening to America — Self2009
- Soul of a People: Writing America's Story — Self2009
- Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago — Self2007
- Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street — self2006
- A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin2005
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Other Voices (voice)2004
- The Culture Show — Self2004
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- 924
- Total plays
- 5,025
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Louis "Studs" Terkel (16 May 1912 – 31 October 2008)[1] was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago. Terkel was born to a Russian Jewish tailor, Samuel Terkel, and Anna Finkelin in New York City, New York. At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois, where he spent most of his
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Equity in the finance of health care: some further international comparisons
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- Cost-Effectiveness of Accelerated Perioperative Care and Rehabilitation After Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
· 2009 · cited 193x
- Effects of small medial preoptic area lesions on maternal behavior: Retreiving and nest building in the rat
· 1980 · cited 140x
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Key dates
- Born
- 16 May 1912
- Died
- 31 October 2008
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Field of work
- jazz
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Categories
1912 births2008 deaths20th-century American historians20th-century American male journalists20th-century American male writers20th-century American memoirists21st-century American male writers21st-century American non-fiction writersAccidental deaths from falls in the United StatesAmerican agnosticsAmerican male non-fiction writersAmerican people of Russian-Jewish descent