Studs Terkel, American historian and author (born 1912)

Studs Terkel

American author, historian and broadcaster (1912–2008)

Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American writer, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.