Studs Terkel (1912-2008) was an award-winning author and radio broadcaster. He is the author of
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession;
Division Street: America,
Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century;
Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times;
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II;
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do;
The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century;
American Dreams: Lost and Found;
The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater;
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression;
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith;
Giants of Jazz;
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times;
And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey;
Touch and Go: A Memoir;
P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening; and
Studs Terkel's Chicago, all published by The New Press. He was a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and a recipient of a Presidential National Humanities Medal, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a George Polk Career Award, and the National Book Critics Circle 2003 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.
