Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel was born in New York City, New York, United States on May 16th, 1912 and is the Non-Fiction Author. At the age of 96, Studs Terkel biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 96 years old, Studs Terkel physical status not available right now. We will update Studs Terkel's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.
Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster.
In 1985, he received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and is best known for his oral histories of common Americans and the staging of a long-running radio show in Chicago.
Early life
Terkel was born in New York City to Russian Jewish immigrants, Samuel Terkel, a tailor, and Anna (Annie) Finkel, a seamstress. He and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where the majority of his life was spent. Meyer (1905-1958), and Ben (1907-1955), as well as Gilbert (1907-1965). He attended McKinley High School.
His parents operated a rooming house from 1926 to 1936, which also served as a meeting place for people from all walks of life. Terkel credited his deep knowledge of humanity and social interaction to the people who gathered in the lobby and the ones who gathered in nearby Bughouse Square.
He married Ida Goldberg (1912–1999) in 1939, and the couple had just one child. Despite the fact that he received his undergraduate degree in 1932 and a J.D. He received his degree from the University of Chicago in 1934 (and was admitted to the Illinois Bar the following year) and decided that rather than practicing law, he wanted to be a concierge at a hotel, and he soon joined a theater company.
Later life
Terkel received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award in 2004 as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. Terkel underwent heart surgery in August 2005. He was one of the oldest patients to have undergone this sort of surgery, and doctors said his recovery was remarkable for someone of this advanced age. A day before 2004, Terkel smoked two cigarettes.
Terkel, as well as other plaintiffs, including Quentin Young, filed a federal district court suit against AT&T Inc. on May 22, 2006, seeking to stop the telecommunications carrier from divulging customer telephone numbers without a court order.
Judge Matthew F. Kennelly dismissed the complaint on July 26, 2006. Judge Kennelly cited a "state secrets privilege" that was designed to shield the government from being harmed by lawsuits.
Terkel discussed his own "diverse and idiosyncratic taste in music," from Bob Dylan to Alexander Frey, Louis Armstrong to Woody Guthrie in an interview in The Guardian commemorating his 95th birthday.
In fall 2007, Terkel wrote Touch and Go, a new personal memoir.
During a 2004 interview with Krista Tippett on American Public Media's Speaking of Faith, Terkel claimed himself as a self-described agnostic, which he jokingly referred to as "a cowardly atheist."
On the Smithsonian Channel, one of his last interviews was for the documentary Soul of a People. He talked about his time in the Works Progress Administration.
Terkel said he was "still in touch, but eager to go" at his last public appearance in 2007. On February 4, 2008, he did one of his last interviews on the BBC HARDtalk show. In October 2008, he discussed Barack Obama's potential election as President of the United States and gave him some tips.
Terkel died in his Chicago home on Friday, October 31, 2008, at the age of 96. He had been suffering since a fall in his house earlier this month.
Career
A political leftist, Terkel joined the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project, working in radio, doing work that varied from voicing soap opera productions and announcing news and sports to presenting shows of recorded music and writing radio scripts and advertisements. His well-known radio program, titled The Studs Terkel Program, aired on 98.7 WFMT Chicago between 1952 and 1997. The one-hour program was broadcast each weekday during those 45 years. On this program, he interviewed guests as diverse as Martin Luther King Jr., Leonard Bernstein, Mort Sahl, Bob Dylan, Alexander Frey, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams, Jean Shepherd, Frank Zappa, and Big Bill Broonzy.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Terkel was also the central character of Studs' Place, an unscripted television drama about the owner of a greasy-spoon diner in Chicago through which many famous people and interesting characters passed. This show, Marlin Perkins's Zoo Parade, Garroway at Large, and the children's show Kukla, Fran, and Ollie are widely considered canonical examples of the Chicago School of Television.
Terkel published his first book, Giants of Jazz, in 1956. He followed it in 1967 with his first collection of oral histories, Division Street America, with 70 people talking about the effect on the human spirit of living in an American metropolis.
He also served as a distinguished scholar-in-residence at the Chicago History Museum. He appeared in the film Eight Men Out, based on the Black Sox Scandal, in which he played newspaper reporter Hugh Fullerton, who tries to uncover the White Sox players' plans to throw the 1919 World Series. Terkel found it particularly amusing to play this role, as he was a big fan of the Chicago White Sox (as well as a vocal critic of major league baseball during the 1994 baseball strike), and gave a moving congratulatory speech to the White Sox organization after their 2005 World Series championship during a television interview.
Terkel received his nickname while he was acting in a play with another person named Louis. To keep the two straight, the director of the production gave Terkel the nickname Studs after the fictional character about whom Terkel was reading at the time—Studs Lonigan, of James T. Farrell's trilogy.
Terkel was acclaimed for his efforts to preserve American oral history. His 1985 book "The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two, which detailed ordinary peoples' accounts of the country's involvement in World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize. For Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, Terkel assembled recollections of the Great Depression that spanned the socioeconomic spectrum, from Okies, through prison inmates, to the wealthy. His 1974 book, Working, in which (as reflected by its subtitle) People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, also was highly acclaimed. Working was made into a short-lived Broadway show of the same title in 1978 and was telecast on PBS in 1982. In 1995, he received the Chicago History Museum "Making History Award" for Distinction in Journalism and Communications. In 1997, Terkel was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Two years later, he received the George Polk Career Award in 1999.