Louis "Studs" Terkel (1912–2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, collected in his book Working, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago. A political liberal, 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. On this program, he interviewed guests as diverse as Martin Luther King, Leonard Bernstein, Mort Sahl, Bob Dylan, Alexander Frey, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams, Jean Shepherd, and Big Bill Broonzy.
Studs Terkel
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
Division Street (Nonfiction Book)
Studios
Mansfield
Studs Terkel worked in the Mansfield studio.
The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Mrs. Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club, which was among the biggest clubs by the same name around the country honoring the legacy of Edward MacDowell and supporting MacDowell. The small…