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(1912-2008) Writer. Studs Terkel was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Chicago, Illinois. He won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1985.

Full Name

Studs Terkel

Locations

Bronx

Author's Timeline


1912

BIRTH

Studs Terkel was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1912.

1957

LITWORK

Giants of Jazz


Nonfiction.

1966

LITWORK

Division Street: America


Nonfiction.

1970

LITWORK

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression


Nonfiction.

1974

LITWORK

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do


Nonfiction.

1977

LITWORK

Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times


Nonfiction.

1980

LITWORK

American Dreams: Lost and Found


Nonfiction.

1985

LITWORK

The Good War': An Oral History of World War II


Nonfiction.

1988

LITWORK

The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream


Nonfiction.

1992

LITWORK

Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession


Nonfiction.

1995

LITWORK

Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It


Nonfiction.

1997

LITWORK

My American Century


Nonfiction.

2007

LITWORK

Touch and Go


Nonfiction.

2008

DEATH

Studs Terkel died in Chicago, Illinois, in 2008.

2008

LITWORK

P.S.: Further Thoughts From a Lifetime of Listening


Nonfiction.

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