Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 1912-05-16
Death 2008-10-31
Americans
English

Biographical notes:

Studs Terkel was born May 16, 1912, and died in Chicago on Oct. 31, 2008.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searching interviews with ordinary Americans helped establish oral history as a serious genre.

From the description of It's a living, [videorecording], 1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612307109 and the description of Studs Terkel papers and book interviews, ca. 1950-1999. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 713907330

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Subjects:

  • Musicians
  • United States
  • United States
  • United States
  • United States
  • African American sculptors
  • Authors, American
  • Authors, American
  • Cardiovascular pharmacology
  • Chicago (Ill.)
  • Chicago (Ill.)
  • Chicago (Ill.)
  • Chicago (Ill.)
  • Cold War
  • Colonists
  • Communication and technology
  • Forty
  • Freedom of speech
  • Gospel music
  • Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871
  • Harmonics
  • Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886
  • Historians
  • Irish
  • Labor
  • Labor movement
  • Labor unions
  • Metal sculpture
  • Music
  • Nepotism
  • New Deal, 1933-1939
  • Novelists
  • Parks
  • Pharmacologists
  • Pizza
  • Plazas
  • Political corruption
  • Potawatomi Indians
  • Presidential candidates
  • Presidents
  • Pyschologists
  • Pyschotherapy
  • Radio broadcasting
  • Skid row
  • Skyscrapers
  • Sound
  • Television
  • Television broadcasting
  • Tourism
  • Tramps
  • Working class
  • Working class
  • Working class
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • United States
  • United States
  • United States
  • Authors, American
  • Chicago (Ill.)
  • Chicago (Ill.)
  • Chicago (Ill.)
  • Working class
  • Working class
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945

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  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
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  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
  • Washington Square (Chicago, Ill.) (as recorded)
  • Chicago (Ill.) (as recorded)
  • Chicago (Ill.) (as recorded)
  • Chicago (Ill.) (as recorded)
  • Illinois (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
  • Chicago (Ill.) (as recorded)
  • Chicago (Ill.) (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)