Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel has written at least 31 books. Their most popular book is Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition with 76 saves with an average rating of 3.9⭐.

Author Bio

Studs Terkel was born Louis Terkel in New York on May 16, 1912. The family moved to Chicago in 1922 and opened a rooming house. From 1926 to 1936 they ran another rooming house, the Wells-Grand Hotel at Wells Street and Grand Avenue. Terkel credited his knowledge of the world to the tenants who gathered in the lobby of the hotel and the people who congregated in nearby Bughouse Square a meeting place for workers, labor organizers, dissidents, the unemployed, and religious fanatics of many persuasions.
Terkel attended University of Chicago and received a law degree in 1934. After a brief stint with the civil service in Washington D.C., he returned to Chicago and worked with the WPA Writers Project in the radio division. After a year in the Air Force, he returned to writing radio shows and ads. In 1944, he landed his own show on WENR. This was called the Wax Museum show that allowed him to express his own personality and play recordings he liked from folk music, opera, jazz, or blues. A year later he had his own television show called Stud's Place and started asking people the kind of questions that marked his later work as an interviewer.
In 1952 Terkel began working for WFMT, first with the "Studs Terkel Almanac" and the "Studs Terkel Show," primarily to play music. The interviewing came along by accident. This later became the award-winning, "The Studs Terkel Program." His first book, Giants of Jazz, was published in 1956. Ten years later his first book of oral history interviews, Division Street: America, came out. It was followed by a succession of oral history books on the 1930s Depression, World War Two, race relations, working, the American dream, and aging. His last oral history book, Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith, was published in 2001.
Late into his life Terkel continued to interview people, work on his books, and make public appearances. He was the first Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Chicago Historical Society. His last book, P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening was released in November 2008.
--From Studsterkel.org

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition John Howard Griffin	3.9	35 reads
Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do Studs Terkel	3.86	14 reads
The Good War Studs Terkel	4.33	7 reads
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression Studs Terkel	4.5	4 reads
Division Street America Studs Terkel	0	0 reads
Chicago Nelson Algren Bill Savage	4	1 read
American Dreams: Lost and Found Studs Terkel	0	0 reads
Race Studs Terkel	0	0 reads
The neon wilderness Nelson Algren Studs Terkel Tom Carson Terry Southern	0	0 reads
Christ in Concrete Pietro Di Donato	0	1 read
Giants of Jazz Studs Terkel	0	0 reads
One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko Mike Royko	5	2 reads
This I Believe This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women	0	0 reads
Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches Ernie Pyle	0	0 reads
Bridges of Memory : Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration Timuel D. Black Jr.	0	0 reads
The Studs Terkel Reader The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century Studs Terkel	0	1 read
Outside the Magic Circle Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr Virginia Foster Durr Hollinger F. Barnard Studs Terkel	0	0 reads
The Good War The Good War: An Oral History of World War II Studs Terkel	0	0 reads
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith In Troubled Times Studs Terkel	4	1 read
My American Century Studs Terkel	4	1 read
Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It Studs Terkel	0	0 reads
Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth and Hunger for a Faith Studs Terkel	0	0 reads
The Great Divide Studs Terkel	0	1 read
Touch and Go Studs Terkel Sydney Lewis	0	0 reads
Hope Dies Last Studs Terkel	0	0 reads
"The Good War" Studs Terkel	0	0 reads
American Dreams. Lost and Found. American Dreams. Lost and Found. Studs Terkel	0	0 reads
Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie Ed Cray	0	0 reads
Studs Terkel's Chicago Studs Terkel	0	0 reads
Hard Times Studs Terkel	0	0 reads
American Dreams Studs Terkel	0	0 reads