Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel, a Pulitzer prize-winner, was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a presidential National Humanities Medal recipient.

Born in 1912, Studs grew up in Chicago. After graduating Law School in 1934, Studs’ career took a great many turns. He was an actor in radio soap operas, a disk jockey, a sports commentator, a television master of ceremonies and a radio host. He traveled all over the world doing on-the-spot interviews. Studs Terkel lived in
Chicago. He passed away on October 31, 2008.

Sydney Lewis, Interviewer
Sydney Lewis has worked as a waitress, bartender, office goddess, writer
and oral historian. She first met Studs Terkel when she waited on him at a
benefit concert for the I. W. W. in 1976. He ordered a martini.

Highlights from Studs Terkel on Transom

Studs Terkel’s “Born to Live“
Listen to Norman Corwin’s Prayer from “On a Note of Triumph” in Real Audio G2
Studs stay at Transom in New York Times (free, though requires registration)
Read Studs Terkel’s “Something Real” manifesto.
The Studs Terkel edition of “The Transom Review”: HTML or *PDF.
Check out Stud Terkel’s Topic in it’s entirety.

Studs Terkel Links

Prairie Home Companion Celebrates Studs’ Birthday (05/16/98)
New York Times Books: Featured Author – Studs Terkel

Books by Studs Terkel:

The Spectator,

Coming of Age: The Story of our Century by Those Who Lived It.
American Dreams: Lost and Found
Division Street: America
Giants of Jazz
The”Good War”: An Oral History of World War II
The Great Divide
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession
Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times
Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What
They Do