Studs Terkel
1912
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2008
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
native language: English
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Chicago Law School, McKinley High School
occupation: journalist, historian, radio personality, writer, poet lawyer, music journalist, actor
award received: Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award, National Humanities Medal, Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Four Freedoms Award - Freedom of Speech, George Polk Award, Thomas Merton Award, Peabody Awards, Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, Paul Robeson Award, Heartland Prize, Eugene V. Debs Award, Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award
official website: www.studsterkel.org
Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American writer, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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