Studs Terkel

Person · Open Library

Born

1912

Died

2008

Works

60

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Film & TV

Acting · New York, New York, U.S

Known for

• Algren — Self2021
• Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...2015
• Prohibition — Self - Writer2011
• Studs Terkel: Listening to America — Self2009
• Soul of a People: Writing America's Story — Self2009
• Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago — Self2007
• Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street — self2006
• A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin2005
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Other Voices (voice)2004
• The Culture Show — Self2004

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1912

Active to

2008

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

924

Total plays

5,025

Louis "Studs" Terkel (16 May 1912 – 31 October 2008)[1] was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago. Terkel was born to a Russian Jewish tailor, Samuel Terkel, and Anna Finkelin in New York City, New York. At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois, where he spent most of his

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Equity in the delivery of health care in Europe and the US

   · 2000 · cited 395x

2. Starvation induces rapid degradation of selective autophagy receptors by endosomal microautophagy

   · 2018 · cited 258x

3. Equity in the finance of health care: some further international comparisons

   · 1999 · cited 237x

4. Cost-Effectiveness of Accelerated Perioperative Care and Rehabilitation After Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty

   · 2009 · cited 193x

5. Effects of small medial preoptic area lesions on maternal behavior: Retreiving and nest building in the rat

   · 1980 · cited 140x

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Quotes

• “Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.”
• “Doris Lessing: We simply have no idea of Chicago … We never think of you as being on a lake, or of the city being beautiful. We think about the gangsters. You do still have gangsters, don't you? Terkel: Yes, but these days they're mostly in business, or politics.”
• “At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day — indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue — the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.”
• “Chicago is not the most corrupt American city, it's the most theatrically corrupt.”
• “I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.”
• “I was walking downstairs carrying a drink in one hand and a book in the other. Don't try that after ninety.”

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Key facts

Born

Louis Terkel , ( 1912-05-16 ) May 16, 1912, New York City , New York , U.S.

Died

October 31, 2008 (2008-10-31) (aged 96), Chicago , Illinois , U.S.

Pen name

Studs Terkel

Occupation

Author historian radio personality actor

Education

University of Chicago ( PhB , JD )

Years active

1934–2008

Notable awards

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction , 1985

Spouse

Ida Goldberg ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1939 ; died 1999 ) ​

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Official website

The WFMT Studs Terkel Radio Archive | A Living Celebration

5,000+ discussions, over 46 years, with movers, shakers, intellectuals, artists, celebrities, and working folks.

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.studsterkel.org

Image

Studs Terkel - 1979-1.jpg

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