Studs Terkel

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born

May 16, 1912 in New York. New York, The United States

died

October 31, 2008

gender

male

website

http://www.studsterkel.org/

genre

Nonfiction

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Terkel won the Pulitzer prize in 1985 for his interviews with ordinary people in such books as Working, The Good War, and Hard Times. Often called an Oral Historian, Studs Terkel preferred to be known for playing music on the radio.

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Average rating: 4.13 · 7,806 ratings · 933 reviews · 63 distinct works

	Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do 4.22 avg rating — 1,850 ratings — published 1974 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Good War: An Oral History of World War II 4.25 avg rating — 1,022 ratings — published 1984 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression 4.17 avg rating — 879 ratings — published 1970 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Division Street: America by Studs Terkel, Alex Kotlowitz (Introduction) 4.09 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 1967 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times 3.95 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Race: How Blacks And Whites Think And Feel About The American Obsession 4.24 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith 4.10 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions	My rating:
	American Dreams: Lost and Found 4.19 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Touch and Go: A Memoir 3.69 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century by Studs Terkel, Calvin Trillin (Foreword by), Robert Coles (Introduction) 4.21 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	My rating:

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“I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.”
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“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
― Studs Terkel

19 people liked it

“People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel”
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