STUDS TERKEL

(1912 - 2008) 96

WRITER

Wikipedia Profile

Studs Terkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searching interviews with ordinary Americans helped establish oral history as a serious genre, and who for decades was the voluble host of a popular radio show in Chicago, died Friday at his home there. He was 96. Full Article (New York Times)

AWARDS

Pulitzer Prize:

• 1985: The Good War (Winner)

NOTED WORKS

For a full filmography, visit: Internet Movie Database Profile

Literature:

• Giants of Jazz (1957)
• Hard Times (1970)
• Working (1974)
• The Good War (1984)
• The Great Divide (1988)
• Race (1992)
• My American Century (1997)